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YMCA purchasing new site in Sumner By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
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Representatives from the YMCA of Pierce and Kitsap Counties announced Thursday they are purchasing a new location in Sumner and approximately doubling their building plan. The location is a 10.25-acre lot immediately east of
the intersection of 64th Street East and 160th Avenue East. The site consists of six parcels with seven owners; Enzo Construction has partial ownership of each. The site’s availability was identified by city planning manager Ryan Windish, Mayor David Enslow said. Friday evening, Sumner City
Council held a special meeting to approve new options and services agreements with YMCA. Under the service agreement, the city will double its original contribution of $2.5 million to the project, to a total financial contribution of $5 million fully payable over 10 years. Councilman Steve Allsop believed pending sale of the golf course
would make the additional cost feasible for the city, he said. In exchange, citizens will receive four vouchers per year for 10 years to attend the facility for free. The options agreement set the dates by which the city and the YMCA must make progress milestones on the
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Bonney Lake City Council voted April 16 to institute a nonresident season pass to the boat launch. Photo by Daniel Nash
What does I-502 mean to you? By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
It’s been five months since the first wave of implementation went into effect for Initiative 502, making recreational marijuana legal in Washington state. And yet, from the average cit-
The Metro Park District vote ended in a nearly 80 percent ‘No’ vote Tuesday night, but anti-MPD political action committee Families For a Responsible Bonney Lake will continue its campaign through formal election complaints. Shawnta Mulligan — a member of the committee who campaigned against the measure at public meetings, on social media and in a series of YouTube vid-
izen’s perspective, things have hardly changed. While Dec. 2012 saw legalization of the possession of one ounce of plant marijuana — and its equivalent quantities for edible and fluid forms — the state Liquor Control Board is still in the middle of the rule making process for the commercial market. According to the most recent board timeline, draft rules will be sent to stakeholders in the middle of May. Local agencies have remained in the thick of it. The city councils of Bonney Lake and Sumner voted to zone out all marijuana merchants shortly after the initiative’s passage; both had already done the same for collective gardens
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subject to the separate medical marijuana laws, citing the continued disconnect between state and federal law. Police agencies have ceased arrests for simple possession, though Bonney Lake police reports have recorded occasional arrests of people with outstanding court warrants for possession. The Sumner/Bonney Lake Communities For Families Coalition hired former prosecutor and anti-drug speaker Monte Stiles for the 2013 Community Summit’s keynote speech. S.T.A.R.R. Project Director Marilee Hill-
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eos — announced April 23, in an email to the Bonney Lake City Council and local media outlets, the group would be filing formal complaints with the state Public Disclosure Commission and State Auditor’s office. “The City of Bonney Lake … violated ethics and its fiduciary responsibility to its citizens during the April 23rd special election,” reads the introduction of the 18-page document. “The city participated in
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