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School board approves hiring superintendent
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By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
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Packing the Gym
Chris Crandall goes up for a shot Thursday in the Sumner/Bonney Lake Special Olympics basketball Pack The Gym event. Daniel Daily, top right, works through the Franklin Pierce pressure and Brandon Surprenant warms up with peer coach Brittany McKern. Photo by Dennis Box
Sumner School District’s Board of Directors voted unanimously Feb. 27 to hire Sara Johnson as the next superintendent. She is currently the assistant superintendent at the Lincoln County School District in Oregon. When Johnson begins work July 1 — pending contract negotiations, according to a district press release — it will end the hiring process that began in May 2012. “Sumner School District is one of Washington’s outstanding school districts, and I am honored and excited to be selected as the next superintendent,” Johnson said Friday. “I am very much looking forward to working together with the community and educators of (the district) to ensure the best possible education for all of our students.” In May, the school board hired education consultant Lee Goeke to develop a superintendent
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Two assistant police Rhubarb Pie Capital in print chiefs sworn in By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
By Daniel Nash
ular City Council meeting and attended by police both in and outside Bonney Lake Bonney Lake officers Police Department, Kurt Alfano and including Chief James Keller were Brad Moericke of Bonney both sworn in to Sumner. The swearthe office of assising in was immetant chief of police diately followed by Feb. 26. a brief adjournment The swearing in for congratulations and ceremony, presided over refreshments. by municipal Judge Ron Alfano’s and Keller’s proHeslop, was held at the beginning of the city’s regSee CHIEF, Page 3 Staff Writer
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ongtime Sumner residents are well familiar with the town’s 150-plus year history — if not in detail, then through family and word-of-mouth passage. But the story of the Rhubarb Pie Capital will soon be widely available in print, chronicled in an upcoming installment of Arcadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series. And anyone with a photo from bygone days is invited to contribute. The city government’s communication director, Carmen Palmer, has been tasked with compiling the old photographs
— and the stories behind them — before they move on to Arcadia. “What’s really fun is hearing the stories of different people in Sumner,” Palmer said. “Their family stories, together, of course, make up Sumner’s story.
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