Bonney Lake and Sumner Courier-Herald, May 30, 2012

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SEE INSIDE: Your guide to summer events, p. 2 . . . . Columnist Rich Elfers examines money’s influence on elections, p. 6 . . . SHS golfer Kai Taylor sixth in state, p. 7

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BL Council raises school impact fees

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By Brian Beckley Staff Writer

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The forecast calls for a chance of showers today, Wednesday, through Friday. Look for high temperatures to nearly 70, with overnight lows dropping down to 50.

Gabe Mool, 10, of Weebelos Pack 531 of Sumner carries flags to be placed at the gravesites of veterans across the Sumner Cemetery. Mool, his scout pack, members of VFW Hall 3070 and several volunteers from around the community were on hand Thursday to prepare the sites for Monday’s annual Memorial Day Service. Photo by Brian Beckley

The Sumner School District will soon start getting more money in impact fees from builders in Bonney Lake, but not quite as much as the city originally proposed. The City Council Tuesday night passed an ordinance raising the city’s school impact fees from about $1,200 to $3,005 per single family home. The increase brings Bonney Lake’s fees to the same level as Sumner and Pierce County. The increase was requested by the school district after they noticed an accounting error caused the city to pass a school impact fee that was half of what it was the year before and not nearly as much as the district needed. The district requested the city raise the fees to $3,005, an amount set by

See fees, Page 4

Homeless are out of sight, out of mind Look inside... Check inside this edition of The Courier-Herald for the annual Discover Summer supplement. You’ll find a long list of events to keep the family entertained all summer.

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Traditional school of thought on vagrancy doesn’t clearly apply in east Pierce By Brian Beckley

eyes. “It was all I had.” It wouldn’t look like much to most people, but for the past year, Shaw ust off a trail in had made the spot his the westernmost home, collecting items IDDEN section of the from around the forest H former Washington and surrounding areas to State University Forest build a small structure sat a small sign as you to keep him out of the passed a makeshift weather, and a large fire gate to another, lesspit and stove to keep him used trail. HOMELESS warm in the winter and “Paradise Cove,” it cook his meals. Part One read, and like a mailUsing wooden pallets box of sorts, it marked as a floor and an old matthe home of Daryl Shaw, tress as bedding, Shaw had built a a homeless man who until two structure with a tarp overhead and weeks ago lived in the forest. a series of sleeping bags. “To me, it was paradise,” said Daryl Shaw, tears welling up in his See homeless, Page 5

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Daryl Shaw stands beside the remains of his encampment in the former WSU forest as members of Bonney Lake Public Works dismantle his stove. Photo by Brian Beckley


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