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Inaugural Milotte Wildlife Film Festival ready for its close-up By Brian Beckley
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s a child growing up in Bonney Lake in the middle of the 20th Century, the rest of the world was so far away, but for Councilman Mark Hamilton, one Sunday evening television program sometimes provided a window to the rest of the world. “As a kid I looked forward to every Sunday watch Disney,” he said, recalling the old “Wonderful World of Disney” program. “And every once and a while they’d have these nature films.” Hamilton said at the time - pre-Animal Planet or Discovery Channel - there was nothing else like it on TV and no other place to see an actual
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African lion hunting down game. “I’d never seen anything like that,” he said Friday. “It just opened me up to a little bit about wild life.” But little did he know that the filmmakers responsible for many of the nature shows he loved lived right in his hometown. Then, one day his mother came home from an art class and told him about a man in her class named Alfred Milotte who made nature films for Disney. “I put two and two together and realized they were the Milottes talked about by Walt,” Hamilton remembered. Now, decades later, Hamilton wants the rest
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With Mayor Neil Johnson poised to name Dana Powers as the city’s next official chief of police, the city council is taking up the issue of whether the chief should have civil service protection, like the rest of the police force, or be completely at will, like other department heads. Presently the chief’s position is not part of the civil service system, which means the chief serves at the pleasure of the mayor and can be fired when he or she sees fit. While Johnson favors the change to
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School board sets timeline for Super search Daniel Nash Staff Writer
Sumner School District has its timeline for hiring a new superintendent, and families can expect a name by spring of 2013. School board President Rick Hendricks announced the timeline at last night’s monthly board meeting,
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