Auburn Reporter, March 15, 2013

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INSIDE | Yolanda Trout to run for City Council [3]

News | City wins $500,000 grant to install new guardrails [3]

Sports | Mangrum, Swartz grab Pac-12 wrestling titles, prepare for NCAAs. [10]

Friday, MARCH 15, 2013

Surviving The Crucible Recruit from Auburn survives rigors of basic training, earning the right to be called a Marine

The Boeing Co. offer cold comfort. After all, it has not esA spokesman for the caped the public’s attenstate Department of tion that the DOE and Ecology recently told Boeing said at first that the Auburn the spill wasn’t Reporter that in Algona – but the toxic plume it turned out to of tri-chloroethbe there. ylene that had That they slipped underthen said OK, ground and it’s in Algona, escaped Boeing but only in the property years industrial secDave Hill ago appears to tion – and now pose minimum technicians are risk to nearby Algona – looking at the residenat this time. tial areas. But to Algona’s leadAlgona Mayor ers and to the residents Dave Hill put it this who may lie in the way: state and Boeing, path of the plume of if there’s the minimum this known carcinodanger that you say gen – Boeing used the there is, what’s lit the chemical decades ago fire under you to dig all to degrease its airplane those test wells, parts – the recent behavior of the DOE and [ more SPILL page 2 ] By ROBERT WHALE

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By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

They call it The Crucible. For a Marine Corps recruit, it is the final test, the last chance to prove he has the physical and mental toughness to become a United States Marine. For 54 hours, some 200 recruits have been in The Crucible. Operating on just four hours of sleep a night and three meals, they have marched more than 40 miles to Making a confront physical and mental tasks conceived to simulate the rigors of combat. Our reporter, Shawn Skager, spent a week following At issue the U.S. Marine Corps – whether during recruit basic training the recruit has in San Diego. He features absorbed the exDavid Gubarik, a recruit tensive training from Auburn. he has received in the past 11 weeks. “This is it, this is everything they have learned, and they are tested on it,” said Col. Robert W. Gates, Chief of Staff for Marine Corps Recruit Training San Diego. “It all goes toward determining if the recruit has the mental toughness to become a Marine.” For 18-year-old Auburn Riverside graduate David Gubarik, it’s almost over.

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Pacific hires interim city clerk By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

Former Pacific City Clerk Sandy Paul has been appointed interim city

Algona officials want answers in wake of toxic leak

City officials confirm sale of Cavanaugh block By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

The prize: After successfully completing 12 grueling weeks of basic training, recruits receive the Eagle, Globe and Anchor, emblematic of everything that the Marine Corps represents. SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter

clerk and personnel manager, replacing Patti Kirkpatrick, whom Mayor Cy Sun let go two weeks ago. Paul served as Pacific clerk, beginning in 2004 under former mayor Rich Hildreth.

Tickets: www.auburnwa.gov/arts | 253-931-3043

Paul also was the city clerk for Des Moines and served as president of the Washington Municipal Clerks Association from March 2012 to March 2013. The City Council still has to approve Paul’s appointment.

Landmark Development of Tacoma on Wednesday completed its purchase of the former Cavanaugh-familyowned block. “We have received confirmation that Landmark Development has completed the purchase of the Wells Fargo Block in downtown Auburn today,” Auburn’s Economic Development

Manager Doug Lien confirmed in an email to Mayor Pete Lewis. “Developers John McKenna and Brett Jacobsen have confirmed that they are into full design work for a mixed-use project and expect to be in construction this year.” Bret Jacobsen, general manager of Landmark Development and Investors Capital Group,

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Comedy at the Ave| March 16, 7:30 pm | $17/$15, Auburn Ave. Theater The Gothard Sisters | March 17, 2 pm | $17/$15, Auburn Ave. Theater Rainbow Dance Theater | March 23, 7:30 pm | $15/$13, Performing Arts Center 739728


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