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What’s next? City must tackle eroding roads Officials look for ways to treat worn streets in wake of bond defeat

By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

As most people know by now, Auburn’s $59 million road bond went down in last week’s special election, barely reaching a simple majority when it needed a 60-per-

cent super majority.

In the combined results of King and Pierce counties, the measure garnered 50.27 percent yes to 49.73 percent no as of April 22.

In the Lakeland Hills area of Auburn, however, the bond picked up 61 percent.

Political types will no doubt rake the results and scratch their heads to figure out the hows and the whys and what lessons they can learn from it all.

But apart from the political side, there are cold facts on the ground. Auburn’s roads and

streets, like everything else on the planet, are aging — and there is still no grant money, and no dollars from the county, state or federal government to deal with that problem.

On Tuesday, Mayor Pete Lewis sat down with his engineering and public works staff to consider what steps the City could take to

extend the life of the streets out as long as possible.

Here are some of the highlights of that meeting.

1. The mayor has authorized the City’s public works and engineering staff to begin chip sealing arterials. Chip sealing calls for laying down an oil mat, dropping [ more ROADS page 4 ]

Council, union cast vote of no confidence in Pacific mayor

BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com

Dogged determination Kathy Duarte-Wilson escorts her Lab mix, Julie, as she charges through the elite agility trail during qualifications at the King County 4-H Youth Dog Show at Argus Ranch last weekend. Exhibitors throughout the county, including the Auburn Valley Tailwaggers 4-H Club, trained and groomed their pet dogs in hopes of qualifying them for the Puyallup Fair in September. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

Man gets 20 years for killing his wife

By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

An Auburn man learned last Friday morning that he will spend 20 years in prison for killing his wife.

Superior Court Judge Brian Gain sentenced Paramjit Basra, 54, for strangling 39-year-old Harjinder Basra at their home.

In February, a jury found Basra guilty of first degree murder.

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Auburn Mountainview senior wins AVCA logo design contest

By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

Bold. Eye catching. Inclusive. Modern.

One look at Justin Williams’ winning logo design for Auburn Valley Creative Arts and it’s easy to see why the Auburn

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Tensions have ratcheted up between Pacific’s unpopular mayor and its frustrated City Council.

In the latest twist to this ongoing drama, the seven-member council and the City police employees union officially gave Mayor Cy Sun a vote of no confidence at a heated City Council Sun meeting Monday night.

“Your unprofessional demeanor, outbursts, slanders of citizens, organizations, business owners, other city representatives and council members as a top representative for the

City has been an embarrassment,” Mayor Pro Tem John Jones read from the motion’s statement. “Your ill-mannered, uncivil, demanding, intimidating demeanor has created a hostile workplace for City employees.”

The council unanimously passed the motion of non-confidence, 7-0.

Angered at times, Sun stood silent as he heard the claims. Later, as the council was finishing its business, he quietly left the meeting.

“The whole council is against me,” a disgusted Sun said as he left his chair. [ more SUN page 4 ]

Mountainview senior came out tops in the organization's design contest.

Williams and his design (shown left) were recognized at a spirit assembly at Auburn Mountainview last Friday, with Williams coming away with a certificate, a $100 gift card and the honor of knowing his design will grace everything the AVCA puts out, from posters to postcards. [ more LOGO page 5 ]

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Red light photo program yielding fewer violations

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Spring cleaning Jerome Feltman, right, and his daughter, Joliza, carry debris to a collection site in the parking lot by the Pacific Senior Center during the fifth annual Pick Up Pacific, a community-wide volunteer cleanup effort in the spirit of Earth Day. Volunteers were assigned to Pacific parks for weeding, raking, beauty bark renewal and cleanup last Saturday. The effort collected 7,662 pounds of trash. The White River Valley Lions, Pacific Partnerships, City of Pacific Park Board, Friends of the Lower White River and Metals Express were among the event sponsors.

Volunteers received a pancake breakfast, T-shirts and prize giveaways. MARK KLAAS, Auburn Reporter

Violations at red light photo enforced intersections and school zones continue to drop, according to the Auburn Police Department’s latest report card on the program, “Photosafe Auburn, First Quarter Report, Jan.-March 2008-2012.

“The numbers are down,” Assistant Police Chief Bob Karnofski told Monday’s meeting of the City’s Municipal Services Committee.

The City spends about $180,000 every year to Arizona-based vendor Redflex Traffic Systems to keep it going and

is now spending more money than it’s taking in.

Money well spent, said Auburn City Councilmemeber Largo Wales.

“I don’t have a problem spending $180,000 on safety, and I have never had a problem with them being by the schools. I believe in them. My objection has always been just the photo enforcement signs that are at the other locations where we do not have photo enforcement,” Wales said.

The City launched the program on June 30, 2006 at two intersections: Auburn Way

South and 4th Street Southeast; and Auburn Way South and M Street Southeast. It added Harvey Road and 8th Street in December of that year.

Today the program also numbers school zone safety cameras for Mt. Baker Middle School and in the school safety zones of Chinook, Dick Scobee, Lea Hill and Arthur Jacobsen elementaries.

The data show that over the first quarters of the years 2008-2012, the percentage of red-light violations, that is, the total number written by officers as opposed to [ more CAMERAS page 4 ]

State reveals top bidders for 2 Auburn liquor stores The Washington State Liquor Board announced Monday the winning bidders for the rights to apply for spirits retail liquor licenses at Auburn’s two state-run liquor stores, which were among 167 state-run stores auctioned off online last Friday.

Kulwant S. Khaira of Seattle submitted the winning bid of $251,200 for the Auburn North store at 801 Auburn Way N. in the Fred Meyer complex. The store had more than $4.4 million in gross sales in 2011.

Henok Mezengie of Mukilteo submitted the winning bid of $155,100 for the Auburn store at 3930 A St. SE. The store had more than $4 million in gross sales in 2011.

The sum of individual bids for the 167 stores totaled $30.75 million, with rights awarded to 121 individual bidders, according to a liquor board media release.

Voters approved Initiative 1183 last year to get the state out of the liquor business and privatize sales. Stores must be at least 10,000 square feet to sell liquor under the initiative, but the state-run stores are excluded from that rule.

Initiative 1183 directed the liquor board to auction the state store properties

where they are. The state, however, leases rather than owns the properties, creating a unique circumstance for the auction.

Successful bidders earned the exclusive right to apply for a liquor license at the current location within the existing footprint. All state store properties fall below the 10,000-squarefoot threshold established by the initiative. Successful bidders must secure a lease with the property landlord.

If they can’t secure a lease, they may re-sell their right or request an alternative location within a 1-mile radius of the existing location.

The state liquor board ran two simultaneous auctions to achieve “maximum reasonable value,” as stated in the initiative. The first was for each individual store. The second was for all store locations available for a single bid, with the state taking the higher of the two.

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[ sun from page 1 ] “I can’t do anything. You take over.”

Much has changed since Sun took office more than 16 weeks ago. The 82-year-old Sun, a highly decorated Korean War veteran, vowed to “clean house,” lower staff costs and end “corruption.” He subsequently fired staff and forced others, notably the public works director, city engineer and finance director, to resign.

Sun also placed Police Chief John Calkins on paid administrative leave for misconduct stemming from an argument following the Jan. 3 City Council meeting.

On Monday, Sgt. Jim Pickett, a 25-year-veteran, replaced Ed Massey, who was acting chief in Calkins’ absence. Calkins, according to city officials, remains on leave.

In wake of the changes and Sun’s handling of matters, members of Local Team 117 responded. It concludes that Sun is “ineffective as a leader,” according to union representative Mark Manning, who read a summary of his group’s findings to the council.

Teamster Local 117 “expresses their dissatisfaction and lack of confidence in leadership,” Manning said, adding that Sun has “shown no signs of positive change” since he took office in January.

Furthermore, the union concluded, Sun does not understand how the police department operates.

“Mayor Sun’s lack of skills associated with leadership in

[ ROADS from page 1 ] fine gravel on top of that and spreading another oil mat on top of that.

While such a surface has a tendency to chip, it adds up to about half of the cost

Making a point: Pacific Mayor Pro Tem John Jones discusses a public works project with City staff, with Councilmember James McMahon in the background, during Monday’s meeting. MARK KLAAS, Auburn Reporter general shows no willingness to learn any matters relating to City government, totally lacks in personal communication skills, does not show any transparency and direction, does not show any interest in … organization,” the union stated.

“He has been criticizing enforcement actions conducted by police officers without asking about the details (or) conducting any research into the matter. “… Mayor Sun is a profound believer in the ‘my way or the highway,’” approach, union members said, adding that Sun has created a “realm of fear, (with City employees) under the threat of being terminated.”

An impatient City Council also voiced its disapproval.

As Jones explained, supporting evidence has compelled the council members “to see that (Sun’s) tenure as mayor of the City of Pacific, though short, has been an eroding, degrad-

of maintaining the more typical two-to-three inch overlays.

“The chip seals don’t last as long as an overlay, but they might last as long as four or five years on some

ing, detrimental and costly endeavor.”

Such a working relationship, council members say, has jeopardized grant-enhanced projects, including the ongoing Valentine Road/136th Avenue corridor improvements.

Vacancies remain The dismissal of key department heads without replacing them with qualified personnel and inaction, have put the City in a vulnerable position with the project, the council summed up.

Without an administrative staff, the City recently lost a $15,000 low-income home repair grant, Jones said.

“This action has put the City on the brink of failure of the cooperative Pacific-Sumner City Valentine Road project by not having anyone overseeing and administrating to our City’s needs, and not meeting current

of these big roads. This doesn’t solve our problems, but we simply need to extend the life of the roads as much as we can,” Lewis said.

2. Dropping speed limits

requirements,” Jones said.

To avoid the collapse of the Valentine Road/136th Avenue project, the City Council has agreed to enter a new interlocal agreement with the City of Sumner, allowing the neighboring city to provide the lead entity role to see the project through.

Both cities determined that it is in the best interest of the project for Sumner to be lead the way, ensuring the project will be finished efficiently while meeting critical milestones and using federal funding.

Sun balked at the new arrangement, saying he has the necessary public works team in place to ensure the project gets done on time. Sun claimed Jones is taking the reigns of the project for his own gain.

“Why blame me? The mayor pro tem is trying to get hold of the program and kick me out,” Sun said. “Why? I guess they just want me out.

“The program is going to be saved. … If (the mayor pro tem) runs the program, I think we lose it. He doesn’t know enough of what’s going on (on Valentine),” Sun said. “The program hasn’t fallen on its face.

I’m trying to save it. “(Jones) wants to come in and push me over. I’m the mayor. I’m running the program. If he comes in, I’m going to push him over anyway.”

Jones denied Sun’s claims.

“As an elected official, I’m making sure we comply with projects,” Jones said. “This is not an action to override and take the mayor’s job.”

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[ CAMERAS from page 3 ] actual infractions issued, dropped as follows: • Auburn Way South and 4th, southbound, down 50.3 percent; northbound, down 36.2 percent • M Street and Auburn Way South, westbound, down 45 percent; northbound, down 88.4 percent • 8th and Harvey: down 67 percent • Total: down 47.7 percent The total number of first quarter infractions actually issued has decreased 61 percent since 2008.

Officers who review the video clips supplied by Redflex may decide not to issue infractions based on a number of reasons, including unreadable or obstructed plates, emergency vehicles, inclement weather and the officer’s own discretion.

The first-quarter data for school zone speed enforcement is as follows: • Dick Scobee, down 51.6 percent • Chinook, down 72 percent • Mt. Baker, down 75.9 percent For the years 2010 and 2012, the only years for which school zone data for the newest cameras is available, the numbers are as follows: Lea Hill Elementary, down 56.1 percent; and Arthur Jacobsen Elementary, down 82.3 percent.

City officials say the primary goal is to improve traffic safety through reduction of red-light violations and associated collisions and to reduce speeding in designated school zones.

City officials have taken revenue from the program left over after all expenses are paid and dedicated it to other areas of the city under the umbrella of traffic calming. Cameras cannot be placed at every intersection and stretch of road.

accord with National Engineering Standards. Staff are expected to present their recommendations to the mayor at a future meeting.

3. Prohibit large, passthrough, freight trucks from using the corridors, while still allowing local delivery and access.

“We’re simply not going to be able to take the pass-through traffic anymore. It’s going to have to go to State Route 167 instead of on East and West Valley from here on in.

That will mean limiting the freight Lewis load to 10 tons.

We’ll put a weight limit on and prohibit it.”

The trucking companies here are considered local delivery and access.

“But someone going from Tacoma to Eastern Washington, coming from Chicago, from Seattle, we simply can’t have them on East and West Valley anymore. What we’re finding for the most part is that if we allow local traffic for

big trucks, that takes care of our people who work here and will work here.”

Lewis said the city won’t spring any surprises on the driving public. “…We won’t do anything in the dead of night. We’re going to give people advance notice, but we’re also saying, ‘Look, we have to do everything we can to preserve those roads as long as we can for the safety of the citizens. Citizen safety always comes first.’”

Lewis responded in advance to critics who might see the measures outlined above as retaliatory in light of the road bond’s defeat.

“My answer to that is I always say exactly what I’m going to do. If it passed, I said we would do one thing, and if it didn’t, I said we were going to do another. The City of Auburn is doing exactly what it said it was going to do, and those naysayers can’t object to the truth.”

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www.auburn-reporter.com [ LOGO from page 1 ] “We were looking for something that would give us a cohesive and inclusive feel about the group,” AVCA’s Jan Allington said. “He had to pull together a lot of different elements to present an inclusive logo for us.

We choose it because it did exactly what we asked for and modernized it a bit.”

The design is simple. A series of colored, geometric shapes that incorporates the organization’s acronym.

“I played with the letters, she wanted the A, V, C, A in there,” Williams said. “So, I played with them. From a distance it just looks like colors, then up close you go ‘oh, there are letters.’ She wanted something bold and eye catching, that you can shrink or blow up, and she wanted something simple, and modern, and appealing to everyone, old or young.”

Williams’ design was deemed the best by the organization's three judges, said Allington, who coordinated the contest.

“He managed to keep

design student at Auburn Mountainview, he first found out about the contest from his teacher Lonnie Chavez.

“She came to us and gave us the assignment that Jan Allington wanted (Auburn Valley Creative Arts) to create a new logo,” Williams said. “I thought it would be really cool idea to do for secondyear graphic arts students.”

Williams, who hopes to major in graphic arts in college and “hopefully make a living out of it,” said the process was a vital learning experience.

The winner: Auburn “It helped a lot,” WilMountainview’s Justin Williams won a $100 gift card and a certificate liams said. “It showed me how to deal with for his logo design for AVCA. deadlines and to create SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter something I wouldn’t normally create, but it inclusive and the older create for someone else. people liked it. We think And I gained more expeit will serve us well into rience on the computer the future,” she said. “I and with the programs.” might change the colors to reflect different In addition to the honor seasons, maybe change of having his design used them to fall colors in the by the AVCA, Williams fall, spring colors in the was also awarded a certifispring.” cate and a $100 gift card According to Williams, to the Daniel Smith art a second-year graphic store.

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Police Blotter Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between April 17 and April 23:

April 17 Forgery: 2:14 p.m., 3004 Auburn Way S. A vehicle theft dating to February came close to biting its victim again when a woman was spotted at an ATM trying to use the victim’s purloined bank card to access said victim’s bank account. Police know who that no-account person is and are forwarding charges of forgery and possession of stolen property to the prosecutor’s office.

Bike theft: 5 p.m., 23 A St. SW. Somebody reported the theft of a bicycle from the Sound Transit Center.

shoplifting $9.32 worth of undisclosed food from the Market at Lea Hill then booked the kid into the King County Youth Service Center on a charge of theft and for having her name on a misdemeanor warrant.

Theft: 5 p.m., 762 Supermall Drive SW. Somebody reached into a shopping cart at Walmart and snatched a woman’s wallet. The wallet and its contents turned up later in the store’s parking lot, minus the thief.

Theft: Midnight, 1500 block of Hemlock Drive Southeast. Somebody stole jewelry from a home, and the home owner suspects she knows the thief that pinched the valuables.

April 19 Fugitive from justice: 9:24 a.m., 1575 R St. NE. The long arm of the law reached out to snap up two fugitives from justice.

Shoplifting: 3:52 p.m., 12722 SE 312th St. Police busted a girl for

ID theft: 12700 block of Southeast 312th Street. A woman complained that her mother had used her personal information to set up a Qwest

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Valentine. Firefighters evaluated the patients and determined that the injuries were minor. The patients declined transport to a hospital.

The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 177 calls for service between April 16 and April 22, among them the following:

April 16 Car accident: 3:08 p.m., (Pacific).

Firefighters responded to a report of a two-vehicle accident with injuries at the intersection of Nyberg and

April 17 Aid call: 1:48 p.m., (Auburn).

Firefighters responded to a woman complaining of abdominal pain. King County Medics treated and transported the woman to Auburn Regional Medical Center (ARMC).

April 18 Aid call: 12 p.m., (Auburn). Firefight-

phone account in 2009.

Theft: Overnight, 11800 block of Southeast 318th Place. A woman let a friend spend the night, and when she awoke her percoset was gone.

The woman explained to police her suspicion that the absence of the pills may have been linked in some way to the proximity of the friend.

April 21 Theft: 11:29 a.m., 12 5th St. NW. A man grabbed his girlfriend’s purse and, with said girlfriend in furious hot pursuit, fled to his car to make good his getaway. Things got more complicated when the girlfriend, trying to stop her man, caught her sweatshift in his door handle as he took off. She wasn’t hurt.

Arson with occupant: 11:39 p.m., 3501 Auburn Way S. A homeowner woke up on his couch and saw flames just outside the window of his mobile home. On the porch by the front window the man found wood and a gasoline-soaked towel. ers helped a female who had fallen, sustaining facial injuries. Firefighters rendered first aid and assessed the woman’s vitals. The patient was taken to Valley Medical Center for further treatment.

April 19 Aid call: 6:37 p.m., (Lakeland Hills).

Valley Com dispatched firefighters to the 700 block of 47th Street Southeast to help a woman who had fallen, with resulting back and leg pain. A private ambulance transported the woman to Auburn Regional Medical Center.

Pedestrian killed by Amtrak train identified as Auburn man A northbound Amtrak train struck and killed an Auburn man trying to cross Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s rail yard in Auburn on April 10, according to a BNSF spokesman.

The King County Medical Examiner’s office last week identified the victim as Degen H. Gebru, 26. It listed the cause of death as multiple skeletal fractures,

[ MURDER from page 1 ] Basra on July 27, 2009, after his hysterical daughter called 911 to report that her father had attacked her mother and was trying to kill her.

According to charging papers, the girl called 911 again and told the operator that her father, a truck driver, had just returned to the family home in the 29500 block of 125th Avenue Southeast, pushed his hands up against his wife’s throat and killed her.

The girl said that at one point her father had tried to kill her, too, but that she had locked herself in the master bathroom only a few feet from where her mother was lying.

When officers arrived at the home they found the front door slightly ajar and Basra looking out at them.

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visceral lacerations and blunt force injuries of the head, neck, torso and extremities.

Witnesses said Gebru, a former Auburn High School student, climbed through an idle freight train, then stepped in front of the oncoming Amtrak train shortly after 6 p.m.

Whether Gebru saw the approaching train is unclear.

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He closed and locked the door. An officer knocked, told him to come out, and he finally did.

As the officer placed handcuffs on Basra, he said in broken English, “Ahh ... ahh ... the problem is, I killed my wife. She’s in the room to the right.”

According to the report, Basra appeared “very calm” as he made this admission.

Police found Harjinder Basra lying on the floor by the foot of the bed in the upstairs master bedroom, warm, but unconscious.

She had no pulse. Medics restored a pulse and then rushed her to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

She died days later.

When police tried to question Mr. Basra, he asked for an attorney and the interrogation stopped.

On the way to the patrol

car, court papers say, he said that he had “family problems,” “I killed my wife,” and “she has problems with men, so I killed her.”

Police later searched the Basra home and found no signs of a struggle, although they did see a car charger cord for a cell phone lying on the bed.

Harjinder Basra was declared brain dead on July 30, 2009. The King County Medical Examiner’s Office determined her death was “homicide due to asphyxiation caused by ligature strangulation.”

Basra had originally been set to stand trial for the second-degree murder of his wife, but prosecutors reserved the alternative of charging him with premeditated first-degree murder if they could show intent at trial.

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Anniversary of health care law nothing to celebrate The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) recently celebrated its recent two-year anniversary in front of the Supreme Court. The controversial law finds itself in front of the highest court in the land after 26 states, including Washington, joined together to challenge its constitutionality.

After ferocious public debate and two years of implementation, the legislation still faces an uncertain fate — and supporters still find themselves working to convince a majority of Americans that this signature health care reform isn’t a bad thing. Current Gallup polling shows about three-fourths of Americans believe the law is unconstitutional. [ more GUEST OP page 8 ]

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The dangerous combination of teens, texting and driving has emerged as a bigger problem on local and national roadways.

Rising statistics of crashes and injuries, even fatalities, suggest a need for more public awareness, peer-to-peer education among teens and involvement from institutions, notably schools.

The dangers posed by texting and driving are well documented, but according to a survey just released by State Farm Insurance with Harris Interactive, teens still believe it’s OK to text and drive.

A few facts from the survey: • Texting among teen drivers has not declined: 57 percent of teens admit to texting while driving, despite widespread media attention about the dangers of distracted driving.

• Teens who admitted to texting while driving were nearly three times as likely to report being in a car crash.

• Most teens understand there may be consequences of texting and driving, but do not see it as severe as driving drunk. According to national data from highway safety groups, injuries and deaths related to distracted driving are up. To quantify, 16 percent of all fatal crashes and 20 percent of injuries in 2009 across the country involved reports of distracted driving, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Mark Klaas

“Do you expect to pay less for liquor in privatized stores?”

Driving the message home to distracted, texting teens

COMMENTARY

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Question of the week:

● Q UO T E O F NO T E : “We’re simply not going to be able to take the pass-through traffic anymore. It’s going to have to go State Route 167 instead of on East and West Valley from here on in. ... We’ll put a weight limit on and prohibit it.” – Mayor Pete Lewis, on examining ways to prolong the life of Auburn’s wearing streets.

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Taking offense to road effort I must take issue at Terry Davis’s comments in the recent article on Auburn roads in the (April 20) Auburn Reporter.

To quote Mr. Davis, co-chair of the Arterial Streets Task Force: “But if the people of Auburn don’t want their roads to be fixed and want to continue the patch-roof style, that’s what they’re telling me and the leadership that they want.”

First, who are you Mr. Davis?

Did my wife and I elect you? I don’t remember your name being on the local ballot. You don’t, in any way, reflect our wishes.

You seem totally detached from the reality of us taxpayers.

Our taxes are supposed to go to roads and if they haven’t been, then that’s the failure of “our leadership” to oversee the proper use of our money.

It is just by the grace of God that I alone hold down a job to keep my family going. You don’t seem to have one iota of a clue to what real families are going through.

We pay over $3,200 a year in property taxes on a house that has sunk to the price we paid for it back in 1997.

I can’t believe people like you are in positions of power, a person with the power to voice our wishes as taxpayers.

– Gerard M. Masters

It’s the law, follow the rules In response to recent letters critical of red light cameras

Letters policy The Auburn Reporter welcomes letters to the editor on any subject. Letters must include a name, address and daytime phone number for verification purposes.

Letters may be edited for length. Letters should be no more than 250 words in length. Submissions may be printed both in the paper and electronically.

(Auburn Reporter, April 20) it is tempting to paraphrase one of them by asking how any rational person could be opposed to following the law.

We do not follow laws from other states. The law in Auburn is what the Washington Supreme Court says it is.

The problem for the scofflaws is that there is no credible argument against the pictures showing them violating the rules of the road and hazarding the rest of the public. They just don’t like being caught red-handed and having to pay the fine for violating the law.

They apparently think it is unfair that the rules also apply to them.

– Stephen Sward

Repair school, enhance learning In response to Gene Geiss’ letter (“Focus on students, not a new building,” Auburn Reporter, April 20), PLC (Professional Learning Communities) periods are

an additional hour that gives teachers a chance to examine students’ work, analyze testing data and identify students that need more time and support. This hour gives teachers more time to focus on students and is a crucial part of their classroom planning.

I understand that in hard economic times paying for a brand new high school is daunting. However, as a student who attends Auburn High School on a daily basis, the building’s need of a replacement is apparent.

Geiss stated that the building is “warm, dry and very functional.” However, during winter months, students have to wear several layers of clothing to stay warm in the aging school.

In a math class, there is a desk that students cannot sit in when it rains because the roof leaks.

A few months ago, the school had to be evacuated because the boiler was not working properly, causing students learning to be interrupted.

As a student, I know first hand that the teachers and staff of the school genuinely care about their students and strive to provide students with the best education possible.

The inadequate infrastructure of the school is not providing a safe nor suitable learning environment.

Focusing on students and building a new school go hand in hand.

– Gabrielle Lane [ more LETTERS page 9 ]

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Auburn Regional Medical Center EADS/MORENO Neocia and Luke, girl, April 13 GARCIA/MURO Maria and Horacio, boy, March 31 MAKORO Elizabeth and Ron, boy, April 11 NAVARRO/GARCIA LARA Dulce and Juan, boy, April 13 PERRY Krystal and Johnny Jr., boy, April 15 REYES Claudia, girl, April 3 REYES-SOTO/REYES-FERNANDEZ Celina and Pedro, girl, March 31 RIVERA/MENDOZA Diana and Freddy, girl, March 29 SIEGER/HERNANDEZ Jessica and Ruben, girl, April 2 WHEELING/GUTHRIE Cynthia and Branden, boy, March 29 YANAK Erin and Kevin, boy, April 6

PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF AUBURN REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) PARKS, ARTS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT SUMMER FOOD AND BEVERAGE CONCESSIONS IN LES GOVE PARK The City of Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation Dept is seeking a seasonal concession contractor to provide food and beverage services to the public through a Concession Trailer or Food Truck. This RFP represents a solicitation by the City of Auburn for services. This RFP is intended to encourage vendors to clearly show that they are qualified to provide food and beverage service in a consistent and revenue positive manner for 12-16 weeks.

Each bidder must clearly identify their knowledge of mobile concession operations, food safety practices, contract relations and demonstrate financial stability.

Requirements and Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation needs are outlined in the RFP. Proposals must be received no later than 4:00 p.m. PST on Monday, May 14, 2012.

PLEASE CONTACT THE PARKS, ARTS & RECREATION DEPT AT 253-931-3043 FOR A COMPLETE COPY OF THE RFP AND PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS. Any questions regarding concessions in parks or site visits should be directed to Daryl Faber at: dfaber@auburnwa.gov.

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DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE Auburn School District No. 408 Gildo Rey Elementary School Improvements DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL: The proposed action is grading, infrastructure stormwater and associated permit approval from the City of Auburn for improvements to Gildo Rey Elementary School.

The District proposes to construct a small building addition on the north side of the existing gymnasium and kitchen building as well as improve parking and vehicle access. The south access drive aisle would be reconfigured to accommodate a parent dropoff and pick-up lane. The west staff and visitor parking area would be enlarged by 19 stalls.

An existing modular portable building at the southwest corner of the site would be demolished and two existing underground heating fuel tanks would be decommissioned and removed along with a small septic tank that serves the modular buildings. Stormwater control will be achieved through onsite infiltration facilities to infiltrate runoff from the new development. Approval being sought for this project includes grading and/or fill-

ing permits as well as stormwater approval and building permits.

PROPONENT: Auburn School District No. 408 LOCATION OF PROPOSAL: The project address is 1005 37th Street SE, Auburn, Washington.

It is located in the SE ¼ of Section 30, Township 21, Range 5 W.M. The King County Tax Parcel number associated with the site is: 3021059195.

LEAD AGENCY: Auburn School District No. 408 Note: Issuance of this threshold determination does not constitute approval of the permit. This proposal will be reviewed for compliance with all applicable City of Auburn codes, which regulate development activities.

The lead agency for this proposal has determined that it does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. An environmental impact statement (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c).

This determination assumes compliance with State law and City of Auburn ordinances related to general environmental protection including, but not limited to, access improvement requirements, drainage and utilities.This decision was made after review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the public upon request.

It is the policy of the District that, when undertaking an action involving the exercise of substantive SEPA authority, the District shall consider, as appropriate under the circumstances, the ramifications of such action as to one or more of the factors listed in Auburn School District Policy 6890, Substantive Authority, which adopts WAC 197-11-660 by reference.

This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2). The lead agency will not act on this proposal for 15 days from the date below.

Comments must be submitted to the Responsible Official, Auburn School District No. 408, James P. Fugate Administration Building, 915 Fourth Street NE, Auburn, Washington 98002 by May 14, 2012.

RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: Dr. Dennis “Kip” Herren POSITION/TITLE: Superintendent, Auburn School District No. 408 ADDRESS: James P. Fugate Administration Building 915 Fourth Street NE Auburn, Washington 98002 CONTACT PERSON: Jeffrey Grose, Executive Director of Capital Projects Auburn School District No. 408 (253) 931-4826 PUBLISHED: April 27, 2012 There is no appeal process for this determination.

Published in Auburn Reporter on April 27, 2012. #615977.

And the age group with the greatest proportion of distracted drivers was the under-20 group.

In our state, from 2006 to 2008, there were 224,503 drivers involved in injury crashes, of which 20,205 of the crashes (9 percent) were caused by driver distraction of all types.

Concerned officials in the public and traffic safety business consider a driver talking on a cell phone as impaired as a driver with a .08 blood alcohol level; a driver who is texting is as impaired as a driver with a .16 BAC. If you’re a parent of teenage drivers, as I am, this is alarming stuff.

State and local leaders are accelerating the need to address the problem. The problem with and answers to distracted teen driving, as state traffic officials see it, begins at home. Data from the Washington Healthy Youth Survey shows when parents are more involved

in the lives of their teens, and enforce clear, consistent rules, risks for drinking, drug use, texting, talking on the cell phone and risky driving are reduced.

“Research shows that good parenting really pays off when it comes to reducing crash risk for teens,” said Jonna VanDyk, occupant protection manager for the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC).

Parents can play an important role, but not every teen connects with mom or dad.

That’s where the WTSC – with partners like State Farm Insurance – is stepping in.

An ongoing project in that partnership is challenging teen drivers to question themselves.

“Could you be persuaded to put your cell phone in your trunk while you’re driving?” the project asked.

As expected, the reaction was pronounced.

“They really squawked at the idea. No way,” VanDyk said.

[ GUEST OP from page 7 ] According to the White House, individual liberty matters less than the law’s big benefits, which are supposedly just around the bend. The view from the states, however, is decidedly less optimistic. The problems with the PPACA are so severe that we feel called upon to join together on behalf of our two organizations and enumerate the specific harmful effects of the law.

The PPACA imposes new burdens on states like Washington in three dangerous and damaging ways. First, it costs our businesses with new taxes.

Second, it costs our residents with higher premiums. Third, it costs our state, threatening to reduce access

Officials have found that teens understand the act is wrong, but are not inclined to do anything about it.

The problem revolves around the teens’ compulsive use of the cell phone, for many the source of their inner-circle communicative world, much of which is nonverbal. That addiction becomes a significant problem when the phone buzzes or lights up while they are occupied behind the wheel.

“It creates a sense of urgency or compulsiveness” when driving to respond to it, VanDyk said. “There is that urge to respond while driving.”

Peer pressure, not wanting to ignore friends, leads to texting and driving. And a new study shows that 75 percent of young adults think there’s nothing wrong with that.

“If this is the way you communicate with your peer group, you’ve become kind of desensitized as to how much that is taking away from whatever else might be

to care for Medicaid recipients on the losing end of strained budgets.

Tallying these cumulative economic burdens explains and justifies today’s stubborn public opposition.

Rather than controlling costs, the law controls lives – even to the point of worsening them.

Consider the costs to businesses, which are already holding down employment in anticipation of new legislation. The Joint Committee on Taxation finds that the law will be responsible for a total of $400 billion in new taxes and fees in the next seven years.

Even the Obama Administration’s own Department of Health & Human Services (via the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) admits the

demanding your attention,” VanDyk said.

Peer-to-peer education is one way to attack the problem.

The WTSC and State Farm, for instance, have gone back to school. There have been discussions, assemblies and other awareness projects. They have teamed up to provide teens with an opportunity, an incentive to take action while earning a $500 grant for a school group such as cheerleading, a sports team, choir or club.

High schools can get involved. Teens need to help each other here. It is a good place to start. It is time to make it a priority.

Hands-free devices are not a cure-all. And teens don’t always do what their parents demand.

“Teens listen to other teens, more so than us,” VanDyk said. “They can persuade fellow teens that texting and driving is dangerous.”

To learn more about the programs, visit www.wtsc.wa.gov.

law will push health care expenditures higher. Though the Obama Administration continues to deny it, the calculus is simple: more health care spending equals more expenses on already-strapped businesses.

The law wreaks havoc on our state budgets. In the first 10 years, it will increase Medicaid costs as people who qualify for Medicaid but opt out of the program are forced to enroll.

Whether the Supreme Court finds it constitutional or not, this is one law America can’t afford.

Dann Mead Smith is president of Washington Policy Center (washingtonpolicy.org) and Jonathan Bechtle is CEO of the Freedom Foundation (myfreedomfoundation.org).

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Thieves take my prized possessions I am a senior citizen living in a 55-and-over mobile home park in north Auburn. I’ve been here for about four years.

I don’t have much, but

would like to keep what I have. I recently saw someone steal, of all things, my flag and pole. It was on my front porch for some time.

It’s not the cost I’m concerned about, it’s just the idea of stealing such a thing.

My wife passed away about 15 years ago. I

bought a brass vase for her gravesite; that was stolen also.

I guess, my advice is bring your outside valuables inside your house every evening or whenever you leave.

But all this leaves me sick.

– T.D. Taylor

Correction The Auburn Reporter misinterpreted the acronym, PLC, in Gene Geiss’ April 20 letter to the editor.

PLC stands for Professional Learning Communities.

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April 27, 2012 [9] The City of Auburn offers reduced utility rates or rebates to citizens meeting certain age and income requirements and to customers who are totally and permanently disabled.

The renewal period begins Tuesday, May 1 and continues through May 30. Applications are available at the Utility Customer Service Center, 1 E. Main St., second floor, by calling 253-931-3038 or downloaded from the City’s website, www.auburnwa.gov. A representative will be available to assist with completing the applications at specified times.

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CALENDAR Events Auburn Tourism: For special events in the Auburn area, visit the website: www. auburntourism.com.

Lions Clubs’ 8th annual Special Needs Youth Fishing Derby: 9 a.m.1 p.m., April 28, Auburn Mill Pond Park, 600 Oravetz Road. Presented by the Lions of Zone C-3 District 19C. Preschool and school-age special needs youth are invited to the free derby. Please bring a fishing rod and bait. Siblings and friends are welcome.

A limited amount of fishing rods and bait will be available. For more information, contact David Bryan at 253‐921‐3710 or Norm Wilcox at 253‐445‐0385 Take Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs Day: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., April 28, Auburn Police Department lobby, 340 E. Main. The service is free, anonymous and no questions asked. Items acceptable to be placed in the drop box: • prescription medications; • over-the-counter medications; • medication samples; • medications for pets; • vitamins; • medicated ointments/ lotions; • inhalers; • liquid medication (in leak proof containers up to 12 ounces).

Visit www.dea.gov for more information.

Auburn’s National Day of Prayer: Noon-1 p.m., May 3, Auburn City Hall Plaza, 25 W. Main St. (indoors in case of rain).

Public invited to observe the 61st annual National Day of Prayer. Eleven pastors from many denominations will lead a public prayer event.

Clean Sweep: 7:30 a.m., May 5, City Hall, 25 W. Main St. Day begins with group registration and a pancake breakfast pre-

pared by Kiwanis Club of Auburn. Volunteers will then participate in a ceremonial Clean Sweep down the Main Street sidewalks at 8:30 a.m., followed by the collective volunteer projects at various sites around Auburn beginning around 9 a.m. Volunteers can either choose to participate in a specific project or can ask to be assigned to the project that is in need of the most volunteer support. To volunteer to participate or for additional information, visit www. auburnwa.gov, call 253-931-3043, or email jbrewer@auburnwa.gov.

Shred Day: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., May 5, Alpac Elementary School parking lot, 310 Milwaukee Blvd N, Pacific. Shred your confidential documents on site. No plastics or metal; paper only. Donations welcome. Support the South Valley Police Explorers. Alpac PTA also will be on site to sell candy bars.

Benefits Second annual Empty Bowls Event: 11 a.m.-2 p.m., May 1, Grace Community Church, 1320 Auburn Way S., Auburn. For a small donation – $15 a bowl – event participants get a handcrafted bowl made by local artisans to keep and lunch provided

by Auburn area restaurants and schools.

Proceeds benefit the Auburn Food Bank.

Breast-A-Fiesta: 6:30 p.m.-midnight, May 4, Rainier Room, Truitt Building, 102 W. Main St., Auburn. ChaCha for TaTa’s at Massage The Mom’s event, a benefit for Susan G. Komen 3Day For A Cure. Silent and live auctions, raffle and door prizes, dinner and dancing. Tickets on sale. Call 253-350-2345.

Got an event? submissions@auburn-reporter.com Auburn Valley Y Baby Food Drive: Through May 16, Auburn Y, 1620 Perimeter Road SW. Donations will be delivered to the Auburn Food Bank to help needy families in the community. For more information, contact Stephanie Norton-Bredl at 253-8767552 or snortonbredl@seattleymca.org, or call the Valley Y at 253-833-2770.

Inaugural VRFA Benevolent Fund “Fighting Cancer” Charity Pancake Breakfast: 9 a.m.-noon, April 29, Lakeland Hills Fire Station No. 33, 500 182nd Ave. E., Auburn. Firefighters and the community come together to raise money to beat cancer. Proceeds will be donated to the American Cancer Society. The public can view the engine and the dive boat and chat with the firefighters. Cost is a suggested $10 donation. For more information, contact Firefighter Dean McAuley at 253-318-2807.

Mad Dog Boot Camp Fitness: 10:30-11:30 a.m., April 28, Chinook Elementary playground, 3502 Auburn Way S. Free fitness boot camp to support the Auburn Food Bank. Your only requirement to attend is to donate at least one canned or boxed food, baby products, or hygiene/personal care products for the cause. Organic products welcome. Free camp offered every other Saturday: May 12, 26; June 9, 23; July 14, 28; Aug. 11, 25.

Health Cascade Regional Blood Center drives: 10 a.m.-1 p.m., April 28, Auburn Valley Y Healthy Kids Day, 1620 Perimeter Road SW; 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., May 5, Lakeland Hills Community, 1408 Lake Tapps

Parkway E; 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., May 21, Green River Community College, 12401 SE 320th St.; 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m., May 23, Jefferson High School, 4248 S 288th St., Auburn; 7:30 a.m.-2 p.m., May 29, Auburn Riverside High, 501 Oravetz Road, Auburn; 7:30 a.m.2 p.m., May 30, Auburn Riverside High, 501 Oravetz Road, Auburn. For more information, call 1-877-242-5663 or visit www. crbs.net/home.

Puget Sound Blood Center drives: 8 a.m.-2 p.m., May 2, Auburn High School, 800 4th St. NE; 10 a.m.-noon, 1-4 p.m., May 5, SuperMall, 1101 Supermall Way (bus

by Burlington Coat Factory); 8 a.m.-2 p.m., May 7, Mountainview High School, 28900 124th Ave. SE (auxiliary gym); 11 a.m.5 p.m., May 9, (make appointment), Green River Community College, Glacier Room, Lindbloom Student Center, 12401 SE 320th St., Auburn; 1-3 p.m., 4-7 p.m.. May 14, LDS Church, 625 M St. NE, Auburn. For more information, call 253-945-8667 or please visit www.psbc.org.

Healthy Kids Day: 10 a.m.-1 p.m., April 28, Auburn Valley Y, 1620 Perimeter Road SW, Auburn. Race car-themed event features more than 50 different activities for kids, plus health and wellness resources for families. Free and open to the community.

The first 100 kids receive a free T-shirt, a free 10-minute massage is offered for parents.

Gene Juarez is providing free haircuts for boys/up-dos for girls, and a drawing for a free one year family membership will be held. For more information, call 253833-2770.

Relay for Life: 6 p.m., May 11, Auburn Memorial Stadium, 801 Fourth Ave. NE..

Auburn. Benefit for the American Cancer Society. Teams forming. To learn more, visit www.relayforlife.org.

Dog Trot Fun Run: 9:30 a.m., May 19, Game Farm Park, 3030 R St. SE, Auburn.

The Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation Department is accepting registrations. The

first 100 participants to register receive a free goodie bag valued at more than $15.

Early registration fee is $15 per person and includes an event T-shirt. Late registration and event-day registration is $20 per entry. T-shirts are available on a limited basis for late registrations. The Dog Trot is a family-oriented fun run/walk event that takes place in conjunction with Petpalooza.

Participants can choose between the 3K or 5K routes. Participants may register at the Parks, Arts & Recreation Office, 910 Ninth Street SE, fax to 253-931-4005 or mail to 910 Ninth St. SE, Auburn, WA 98002. The registration form and complete event rules/ information are listed on the city’s website, www.auburnwa.gov.

Entertainment One Day Summer: 6:30 p.m., April 27, The Exit, 325 E. Main St., Auburn. Auburn’s alternative rock band performs concert, with CD release show. Admission is $5. The band can be followed on Facebook.

The Diamond Experience: 7:30 p.m., April 28, Auburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. Bringing the wholesome and heartwarming passion of Neil Diamond’s music to the stage. Tickets: $17, $15. Call Auburn Parks, Arts & Recreation at 253-931-3043, Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com.

Barbershop Quartet Singing Competition: 7-9:30 p.m., April 28-29, Lindbloom Student Center, Green River Community College, 12401 SE 320th St., Auburn. Featuring the top barbershop quartets and choruses in Western Washington. Finals on the second night. Admission: $15. For more information: 206-661-7038 or www. evgdivision2.com.

Chris Cagle at 29th annual Rotary Club of Auburn Scholarship Show: 8 p.m., May 12, Auburn Performing Arts

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Benefactor packages are available that include up to four show tickets and four reception tickets for $250. For information, call 253-833-6633.

Zola’s Cafe: Live music every Friday, 7-9 p.m., 402 E. Main St., Suite 120. For information, contact Sonia Kessler at the cafe at 253-333-9652.

Museums White River Valley Museum: Events: Explore the historic world of moving massive materials to market in the new exhibit.

Rails to Sails, Tracking the Sound’s Industry Boom from Shore to Ship, on display from April 25-July 29. Museum located at 918 H St. SE, Auburn. Regular admission: $2 adults, $1 seniors and children. Admission is free on Wednesdays and the fourth Sunday of the month. Call 253-288-7433 or visit www.wrvmuseum.org for tickets and event information.

Galleries Auburn City Hall: April exhibit: Collages created from the boxes of unused photographs of photographer and artist Thendara Kida-Gee. Silver Gelatin black and white photographs of landscape and architecture of the city are skillfully documented by artist Zachary Kolden.

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Former Auburn Mountainview grappler Honored TJ Peretti, now a sophomore at Central College in Pella, Iowa, was honored by the school’s wrestling program with the 2011-2012 Most Improved award. Peretti finished the season with a 19-11 record at 141 pounds, and lettered for the second time.

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By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

Josh Melu has always been athletically gifted.

As a three-sport athlete at Auburn Mountainview High School, Melu admits he coasted through on his athleticism. He competed in basketball and football and earned a 10th-place finish in the long jump as a senior at the 2010 Washington State 3A Track and Field Championships.

It wasn’t until he started his collegiate track career at Green River Community College last season, however, that he found his recipe for success.

“The main difference – and it may be surprising – but it’s been my mindset,” Melu said. “I’ve completely changed my mindset. In high school I had some physical abilities, but I didn’t have the proper mindset. Half of what I do is mental. It’s half physical and half mental. And if you don’t have the mental part down, you’re not going to be as great as you could be.”

This past weekend in Eugene, Ore., Melu took a step towards reaching his full potential by placing third in the triple jump at

Josh Melu competes in the triple jump for the Green River Community College track and field team. courtesy photo the prestigious Oregon Relays with a 48 feet, 1/4 inch mark. The leap, a personal best for Melu, also set a new Green River record.

“It was a good experience. It’s nice to go into a

[ more Melu page 13 ]

Cerino earns WIAA Class of 2012 Hall of Fame nod

hole-In-One Medel Calayag notched a hole-in-one last Sunday at the Auburn Golf Course.

Calayag accomplished the feat with a seven-iron on the 135-yard, eighth hole.

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meet and compete against guys that are at a level I want to be at,” Melu said.

“And for me to place third was really a big accomplishment for me because the only guys that beat me

were the two University of Oregon guys. It just felt good to be up there with them. And it shows that I can compete with them.”

And with just three meets left in his career as a Gator, Melu hopes he’ll be able to step up to the next level next year and catch on with a four-year Division I school.

Fresh out of high school, Melu was not highly recruited.

Convinced that his competitive track career was over after graduation, he enrolled at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Wash.

A call from a former Auburn Mountainview track coach, Tori Ammons, however, put him back in the game.

Ammons said she was putting together a track and field team for Green River, which hadn’t fielded a team since 1992, and she asked Melu if he would like to join.

In his freshman year as a Gator Melu earned his way to the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges championship where, where he placed second in the triple jump

By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

Gene Cerino throws out the ceremonial first pitch at the 2008 Auburn Little League opener. File photo

Gene Cerino’s impact on the local scene is no secret.

Having started the Auburn High School wrestling program in 1959, he coached the team for 20 years.

Cerino made his presence felt away from the

gym, too, serving as a city councilman for 12 years and teaching at Auburn High School.

On May 9 the Washington State Interscholastic Activities Association plans to honor Cerino as one of eight inductees of the 2012 Hall of Fame class, [ more cerino page 13 ]

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[ cerino from page 12 ] not only for the lives he’s touched and continues to touch in Auburn but for the contributions he made to the sport of wrestling at the state, national and international levels.

“Of course I’m honored,” Cerino said. “It’s not a small honor to be inducted into the WIAA Hall of Fame.

I appreciate the fact that I was nominated and they recognized the things I did as being worthy of being inducted.”

Cerino embarked on his career in 1955, starting the wrestling program at Castle Rock High School. After three years in southwestern Washington, Cerino

moved to Auburn High School, where in 1959 he launched the Trojan wrestling program. During his coaching career Cerino helped lead his teams to five league championships, four regional titles and five top-four finishes. He coached 17 state individual place-winners and five state champions.

But Cerino always had more on his mind than just seeing his own wrestling program succeed – he wanted to help the sport as a whole.

In 1967, Cerino spoke before a national gathering of individual state athletic associations, urging the gathered administrators to think about developing a

rule book specific to high school wrestling. At that time, an amended version of the collegiate rule book governed high school wrestling.

“I gave a half-hour speech to delegates on why high school needed its own book,” Cerino said.

After his speech, Cerino learned that he had been selected to help write the new high school wrestling rule book.

“I was honored to be one of the eight wrestling coaches in the United States to write the first rules book for high school wrestling,” he said.

In 1970 Cerino went international.

Alongside University of Washington wrestling coach Jim Smith, Cerino fought to allow Washington prep athletes to compete out of state.

“I had to attend the WIAA meetings eight times and challenge the board to loosen the rules up,” Cerino said. “Prior to ’70, there was a rule that no one from Washington State – even bands – could compete out of state. Oregon, California and Utah were already doing it, and we were trying to catch up.”

Eventually Cerino’s persistence paid off, and the WIAA voted to allow cultural exchanges. In 1970 the Auburn wrestling program hosted a group of Japanese wrestlers for a tournament at the high school. Later that year he took a group of U.S. wrestlers on a tour of Japan.

“There isn’t enough space to say all of the good things about Gene,” said Auburn High School Athletic Director Bob Jones, who, along with Auburn School District Superintendent Kip Herren, nominated Cerino for the hall. “He is a legend in the

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Zambian citizenship,” he said. “One of my ultimate track goals is to compete for the Zambian Olympic team. The Zambian triple jump record is 51 feet, so I’m striving to break that record. If not this year, I’ll get it next year.”

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state of Washington.

“My son (Auburn Riverside wrestler Eric Jones) was a two-time state champion, and both medals were presented by Gene. He has presented medals to all the Auburn state champions for years. It’s awesome that he is in their podium pictures.”

Although he hasn’t coached for years, Cerino continues to influence students a few days a month as a substitute teacher for the Auburn School District.

“I’ll do it as long as I feel good,” Cerino said. “I have no immediate plans to not do it.”

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Erika Lombardo blows by the competition in the 100-meter dash. Lombardo, a senior at Auburn Mountainview High School, has the ninth fastest 100 time in the state at 12.46 seconds. Rachel CIampi, Auburn Reporter

and 10th in the long jump.

Despite his success on the track with Green River, however, Melu said he still isn’t attracting much attention from the D-I schools.

“I’ve got a bit of interest from Oregon and Washington State, but the only offer I’ve got is for St. Martin’s,” he said. “But that kind of drives me. I know I could be really great, but I have to prove to these guys what I can do. I have to prove my potential.”

And for Melu that potential is vast. Despite the success he’s achieved so far, Melu said, he’s never really had a jumps coach.

“I’m kind of coaching myself,” he said. “I do a lot of research, I’m always on the computer or asking

friends if they have books on jumping,” he said. “After my four classes I’m on YouTube and watching videos all the time. I’m really trying to get as much information about the sport that I can.

So that it will help me out.”

So will catching on with a D-I school, which Melu said he has every intention of doing.

“I have really big dreams and goals,” he said. “I know I can compete in the Pac 12, so I think I’m going to try to go to Oregon next year and see what I can do there. I might as well take a risk.”

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And worthwhile.

Fletcher and her classmates continue to excel in Anderson’s program, the only one of its kind offered in the Auburn School District.

Representing Auburn Riverside, Fletcher recently won a statewide contest – Tahoma High School’s ASL Invitational – in the secondyear level, storytelling category for her symbolic rendition of “King Kong”.

In front of judges, a majority of whom are deaf, Fletcher successfully translated the story within the three-minute limit.

Asked how she described the star gorilla, a grinning Fletcher simultaneously pumped her closed fists on her chest.

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Sign language opens a different ,engaging channel of communication for Jessica Fletcher.

Her mother, Colleen, is technically hard of hearing, and frequently Fletcher turns to her wide vocabulary of hand-shaped signs to exchange a silent, captivating conversation.

“I mean, my mom is completely oral. She hears, but she needs to lipread,” said Fletcher, a junior at Auburn Riverside High School and a second-year student in Cindy Anderson’s American Sign Language (ASL) class. “My mom used to work with deaf people sometimes, so I thought it would be interesting to learn the language.

“There are new signs I picked up from what my mom remem-

‘I love you’: Cindy Anderson’s American Sign Language class has brought out the best in students like Jessica Fletcher, far left, and Jayme Greer, far right.

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Fletcher’s classmate, Jayme Greer, also stood tall at the invitational, placing third in the ABC storytelling category for secondyear level “sign” students. Greer, a junior, used hand-shaped letters – the full alphabet – to spell out the story of “Gone Fishing”.

Greer decided to try sign language, following her sister, Kelsey, who flourished under Anderson’s guidance.

“I like the idea that you don’t have to talk to convey what you’re thinking,” said Greer, an exceptional student who would like to pursue civil engineering at Oregon State University. “It’s really a unique form of language.”

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“Some students can just memorize signs quickly and just grasp the whole concept of ASL as a different language, and the grammar part that comes with the language as well,” Anderson said.

“These two (Fletcher and Greer) definitely learned quickly. They retained the information and they can produce the language, not just watch it and understand it.”

Students, such as Fletcher and Greer, learn at least 500 signs by the second year.

Fletcher’s favorite? The sign for “how are you?”

Greer’s? The expression for “trouble.”

Like Greer, Fletcher hopes to practice conversational ASL long after she finishes school.

Students often become fluent with the alphabet, but encounter some difficulty in learning the different sentence structures. ASL follows the same English order, others do not, Anderson said.

While ASL is the native language of most deaf and hard-ofhearing people in the country, not all signs are interpreted similarly. Distinct signs or accents are practiced in different regions, Anderson said. [ more SIGNING page 15 ]

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Families and interested parties are invited to come learn more and hear from state and local education leaders, including State Superintendent Randy Dorn and Bob Hamilton with the Department of Early Learning.

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[ SIGNING from page 14 ] Despite its challenges – like other foreign languages – ASL gradually has caught on in acceptance and exposure, Anderson said.

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