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Orion finds new home in Auburn BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Since 1957 Federal Way-based Orion Industries has trained people struggling with barriers to employment, helping them land good jobs in the community. In 2012 the company provided more than 350 people with services, placing more than 110 of them in jobs in King and Pierce counties. That achievement, company
Auburn Riverside’s Elizabeth Lee and Sumner Brock excelled in and out of the classroom. MARK KLAAS,
officials say, is worth $3 million to the region. But President and CEO John Theisen says the company is expanding, needs more elbow room. On June 6 Theisen grabbed a shovel, stuck on a hard hat and joined other dirt-throwing dignitaries breaking ground on a new, 100,000-square-foot building at 1590 A St. NE. in Auburn. The site is 6.5 acres of undeveloped [ more ORION page 4 ]
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CLASS ACTS LEAD AND SERVE
BY MARK KLAAS
The Reporter salutes some of the best graduating seniors from each of the Auburn School District’s four high schools, pages 9-12
mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
Well rounded, intelligent, ambitious, appreciative. Sumner Brock and Elizabeth Lee are many things, thanks to the full Auburn Riverside High School experience. Classmates since they were sixth-graders at Mt. Baker Middle School, the duo has blossomed in the arts, sciences and other high school programs to become leaders representing the very
best of the graduating class of 2013. Now these gifted seniors are ready to take on the next challenge. [ more AUBURN RIVERSIDE page 12 ]
Finding their way, reaching for excellence at Auburn High BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Rachel Raybuck and Bridger DeChamps left their marks at Auburn High. ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter
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Whenever the toughas-nails courses were offered, Rachel Raybuck signed up. “I’ve always taken advanced classes. That’s the only thing I do,” Raybuck, 18, said with a
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big laugh, “it’s what I’m good at.” The brainy, hardworking, Auburn High School graduate-to-be is Western Washington University bound, first step on the road to becoming a dietician. [ more AUBURN page 12 ]
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Roll playing Preschoolers from Gildo Rey Elementary School do the snake walk at Auburn Memorial Stadium during Young Athletes Day on Monday. Special Olympics and the Auburn School District sponsored the event. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
Chinese, Auburn form formal Friendship City Relationship FOR THE REPORTER
A VIP delegation from Guanghan, China visited Auburn on June 4 at the invitation of Mayor Pete Lewis to establish an official Friendship City Relationship between the cities. The large Chinese delegation included Deputy Mayor Li Yubo
and Deputy Party Secretary Jiang Dunjie. The Auburn delegation included Lewis; City Councilmembers Bill Peloza and Rich Wagner; Green River Community College President Eileen Ely and Ross Jennings, GRCC vice president of international [ more FRIENDSHIP page 3 ]
Bring Dad to the Market! Sunday, June 16