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VOL. 14, NO. 31
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F E D E R A L WAY
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OPINION | Roegner: Dems race for House seat [6] Johnson: Gender party fouls [6] Firearms Lawyer: Victims of violence [7] CRIME BLOTTER | Shirtless man with unzipped pants chases two women [4] SEX TRAFFICKING | Judge sides with Backpage.com over adult section [8]
CALENDAR | ‘Seussical the Musical’ opens; FUSION | Check out photos from the FRIDAY, AUG. 3, 2012 | 50¢ annual charity summer arts festival [14] Northwest Sand Festival coming [11-13]
Garbage strike leaves a stench By GREG ALLMAIN gallmain@fedwaymirror.com
Waste Management (WM) announced that customers who had a normally scheduled collection day on Wednesday should expect to have their garbage picked up. “The labor disruption continues to be a very unfortunate situation for our customers. Waste Management sincerely apologizes to our community for the inconvenience caused by the Teamsters strike. We are working diligently to resume services throughout Puget Sound. Additional WM substitute drivers continue to arrive, which will provide additional service capacity,” according to an official statement from wmnorthwest.com. According to WM, commercial customers in King County should set out and/or unlock their containers as they would on a normal collection day. Residential customers in the cities of Federal Way, Algona, Auburn, Bothell, Burien, [ more GARBAGE, p. 23 ] NEWSPAPER RACKS: To see a list of rack locations for the print edition of The Mirror, visit federalwaymirror.com/about_us.
Gun sales surge after Colorado shooting More applications for concealed pistol licenses By GREG ALLMAIN gallmain@fedwaymirror.com
Local law enforcement authorities have noted an increase in the number of gun sales and concealed pistol licenses (CPL) in the wake
of the Aurora, Colo, movie theater shooting, which left 12 dead and 58 injured. Those horrific numbers make Aurora the largest and most violent mass shooting in American history. According to local authorities, gun
sales and CPLs typically increase in the wake of a major national event like Aurora — and often increase during presidential election years. “I can say that, in talking with my front desk staff, they have noticed an uptick in inquiries,” said Federal Way Police Department spokeswoman Cathy Schrock. “People asking ‘How do I go about getting
a CPL?’ or ‘What are the rules for buying a pistol?’” In Federal Way, there were 44 new applications for CPLs in the months of June and July combined, Schrock said. June saw 31 CPL renewals, while 16 people renewed their licenses in July. On the sales side of things, there [ more GUNS, page 23 ]
Federal Way’s future Olympic swimmer? Federal Way 14-year-old Thomas Anderson set a national record at last week’s Pacific Northwest Swimming Long Course Championships at the King County Aquatic Center and won a grand total of nine titles during the meet attended by approximately 1,000 youth swimmers. Anderson, who swims three hours a day, seven days a week, has the ultimate goal of swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as an 18-year-old. Read more in this week’s sports section, starting on p. 16. PHOTO BY Wilson Defiesta
Recent drownings illustrate need for life jackets By GREG ALLMAIN gallmain@federalwaymirror.com
In what seems to be an unfortunate summer tradition, a spate of recent drownings throughout the state has Department of Health (DOH) officials reminding everyone that life jackets are a necessary
item when enjoying the state’s waterways. Approximately 71 percent of the more than 100 people who accidentally drown in Washington annually lost their lives on open water — rivers, lakes, Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. About 30 percent of them were
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riding in a boat at the time. The DOH reports that the highest rate of drowning occurs among ages 15-24. Drowning is also the second leading cause of injury death for children age 14 and younger. Drowning is the third leading cause of unintentional injury death for those under age 50.
“Life jackets save lives,” said Dr. Maxine Hayes, state health officer. “And not just of children. In just two weeks in mid-July, three people drowned in northeast Washington near Spokane. That includes some young adults, and none were wearing a life jacket. Three young people [ more LIFE JACKETS, page 23 ]
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