SEE INSIDE: Buckley rides to Buckley: Cyclist from Boston stops at eponymous city, Page 3 . . . . Bonney Lake’s Chief For a Day gets his badge, Page 10 . . . Multiple fires keep East Pierce Fire and Rescue busy all weekend, Page 4 . . . Bonney Lake, Sumner and White River football teams prepare for action, Page 8
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Labor Day All city, county and school district offices will be closed Monday, Sept. 3 in celebration of the Labor Day holiday. Offices will reopen Tuesday.
Tyler Jones, left, pauses briefly during the hot dog eating contest Saturday at the Bonney Lake Food Bank’s Hot Rods and Harleys show at Allan Yorke Park, as last year’s champion, Dillon Taylor struggles to keep up. Jones won this year’s event by eating 13 hot dogs in 10 minutes. The event raised more than $8,000 for the Food Bank. See more on Page 6. Photos by Dennis Box.
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Today, Wednesday, should bring mostly sunny skies with highs in the upper-60s, dropping to the low-50s overnight. Skies are predicted to stay clear through the weekend as temperatures slowly climb into the upper-70s by Sunday.
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Council searches for way forward on Eastown sewers By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
After a few weeks off to marinate on the issue, the Bonney Lake City Council returned to the topic of Eastown sewers Tuesday night. “The sewer is a definite issue that needs to be resolved out there,” Deputy Mayor Dan Swatman said as he re-opened the discussion on how to get pipes in the ground in the city’s
Eastown section as a way to spur development. The council in July voted down a utility latecomers agreement negotiated with landowners in Eastown that would have funded the $4 million project up front with money being paid back to the city and the landowners as developers connected to the city’s system. Under the agreement, the corporation repre-
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The Bonney Lake man who pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend and attempting to burn her body will spend the next 20 years in jail. Mthulisi Ndlovu, 39, was sentenced to 248 months in prison on Friday after pleading guilty to the second degree murder with a deadly weapon of Mary Mushapaidzi, his girlfriend and mother of his Mary Mushapaidzi children. Mushapadzai was killed Oct. 9 following an argument over dirty dishes. Ndlovu struck her with a garden
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Sumner woman killed in crash By Dennis Box Editor
A 56-year-old Sumner woman, Pamela C. Bone, died Saturday on state Route 410 between 234th Avenue East and 254th. According to a report from the Washington State Patrol, the collision occurred about 1:15 p.m. The busy highway was blocked for several hours as police and firefighters responded to the collision. The state patrol report stated Bone was traveling west when she crossed the center-
See Crash, Page 10
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