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Bonney Lake received no federal tranportation dollars in past decade By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
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Weather Rain is likely today, Wednesday, with highs in the mid-40s with light winds from the southwest and overnight lows dropping into the high-30s. Chance of rain is 70 percent. Skies are expected to clear by the weekend however, with mostly sunny skies and high in the mid-40s on Saturday.
Vicki Kostic, Friday’s guest instructor for the Prairie Ridge chapter of Bricks 4 Kidz, checks the motor on Jason Cummins’ LEGO tilt-a-whirl. Photo by Daniel Nash
Building up their education one brick at a time By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
Some children use their after-school time to ride their bike. Others play the latest entry in the Halo franchise on their XBox, and still others will sit and devour their latest favorite book. And then there are the children who use the time to build a tilt-a-whirl. The mainstay carnival ride is brought down to a manageable size, of course: inches-high LEGO constructions that twirl around little yellow men on the power of a bite-size motor. About half a dozen of the devices were the product of Friday afternoon’s Bricks 4 Kidz project in the Prairie Ridge community. The national after-school program exposes children from ages 3 to 13 to
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Samuel Gautier, 8, beams as he shows off his finished tilt-a-whirl. Photo by Daniel Nash
Over the past 10 years, millions of dollars in federal transportation money has been farmed out to the cities in Pierce County by the County Council in the most recent two-year cycle alone, the county disbursed $21 million. But according to Councilman Mark Hamilton, who serves as the city’s representative on the Pierce County Regional Council, in all that time, the
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One injured in machete assault By Brian Beckley Staff Writer
Bonney Lake police late Tuesday night called off a K-9 search for a suspect in a robbery behind the Safeway that involved a machete, though the investigation and search continues. One person was injured in the attack and was transported to the hospital
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