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Finding form in the clay of the past By Daniel Nash
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hree shelves. It’s been almost a year since the Greater Bonney Lake Historical Society acquired a substantial donation of Alfred and Elma Milotte’s personal effects and, in that time, its members have catalogued three shelves worth. That measurement is nothing to sneeze at. The entirety of the donation takes up a large corner of the old courtroom in the city’s Public Works Center, in a space that’s become sort of a fort made out of metal shelving and banker’s boxes. Inside are two lifetimes worth of photos, correspondence, accounting records and other documents. The home is temporary for now — the materials were previously kept in a spare room of the Justice Center — but the society plans to ask the City Council to make the spot a permanent home, local historian and author Winona Jacobsen said. Cataloguing the entirety of the collection could take years, she said.
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The Greater Bonney Lake Historical Society is in the process of cataloguing the donated estate of Alfred and Elma Milotte, cinematographers and nature documentarians. Above are two puppets the husband designed while developing a children’s show. Photo by Daniel Nash
Sturtz pleads guilty to embezzlement By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
Bonney Lake woman Jeanette Kay Sturtz, 57, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days community service and 15 days house arrest after pleading guilty to embezzling more than $35,000 from her homeowners association and a Puyallup landscaping company. Sturtz was charged March 5 for the theft of nearly $26,000 from Blue Sky Landscape Service, where she worked as a financial controller. Her employer discovered in November 2011 that 57 fraudulent checks from company accounts had
been made payable to Sturtz, and two more had been made payable to non-business related cable and power bills. In the declaration of probable cause for the case, deputy prosecutor Lisa Wagner noted that the thefts from Blue Sky began the same month thefts from Sturtz’s homeowner’s association ended. Sturtz was charged in 2011 with the theft of $10,600 from the homeowner’s association where she was treasurer. The charges were dismissed under an El Cid diversion program when it was determined she had paid back what she had taken. The Blue Sky case led prosecutors to
believe she had embezzled from her employer in part to pay back the association. “In (the homeowner’s association) incident the defendant had admitted to stealing $10,600.00 from her homeowner’s association, and she said that the thefts occurred from February to September 2010,” Wagner wrote in the probable cause papers. “That latter date is important because the records in the present case show that the defendant began stealing from Blue Sky Landscaping in September, 2010.” In light of the new embezzlement case, the theft charge in the association case was reopened. Sturtz originally pleaded not guilty March 20. With her plea of guilty to two counts of theft in the first degree, prosecutors agreed to recommend she be sentenced as a first-time offender. Twelve charges of forgery were dismissed from the case.
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