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German pigeon breeders visit Arlington
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Arlington’s Dennis Bray presents one of his pigeons to fellow breeder Norbert Giesecke of Germany.
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Vol. 123, No. 45
ARLINGTON — When Arlington’s Dennis Bray started raising pigeons at the age of 7, he certainly didn’t expect that his hobby would take him across the country and around the world, much less that it would allow him to meet fellow pigeon breeders from other states, and even other nations, who would become his lifelong friends. When Bray was first mentored by Bob Sutherland in Everett, pigeon feed cost 50 cents for a 10-pound bag and pigeons themselves cost only $2 each, as opposed to the $30 per pigeon that pigeon breeders can spend now. Bray nonetheless stuck with his hobby, attending his first pigeon show in Chehalis, Wash., when he
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was still in sixth grade, and going on to win five national championships while traveling throughout the United States. He eventually joined six other area pigeon breeders at the international pigeon show in Nuremberg, Germany, in November of 2006. On Thursday, July 26, Bray was able to return the generosity of a few of his German hosts, by inviting them and their mutual pigeon breeder friends from Utah to an afternoon dinner at his house, one stop of many on the itinerary of the German family of pigeon breeders over the course of late July and early August in the Pacific Northwest. Norbert Giesecke, his wife Beate, their 20-something sons Patrick and Sascha, and SEE PIGEONS, PAGE 11
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ARLINGTON — Construction is underway at the Arlington Municipal Airport on a north-south road to alleviate traffic congestion in Smokey Point and to provide an avenue to potential new business in the area. Jim Kelly, public works director for the city of Arlington, explained that the first phase of construction on what will become Airport Boulevard should be complete by the end of September, with an eye toward starting the second phase early next year, so that the road can be open during the summer of 2013. “It was always pitched as a two-phase project, that would be phased according SEE AIRPORT, PAGE 2
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From left, Arlington City Council members Ken Klein, Randy Tendering and Debora Nelson join Mayor Barb Tolbert and city Administrator Allen Johnson to break ground on Phase I of the Airport Boulevard project.
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