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Task force wrestles with economic development
What’s Inside Pets......................................Page 5 Views...................................Page 6 Obituaries.........................Page 9 Education.........................Page 10 Classified...........................Page 23
Three key ingredients highlighted for city’s future economic health
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Log Show...
By Kevin Hanson Senior Writer
Buckley Log Show Special Section Page 12
Weather The forecast for today, Wednesday, calls for showers with highs near 67 and overnight lows to 55. Thursday’s forecast is partly sunny skies with highs to 77 and lows to 56. Friday should bring partly cloudy skies and mostly sunny skies Saturday and Sunday.
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Junior Log Show
Brad Flanders, 15, won the climbing event with time of 32.97 seconds Saturday at the Buckley Junior Log Show. Lyriec Bono, 11, participates in the double bucking event. Nakoda Snyder won the obstacle pole bucking event. Photo by Dennis Box
Saylor honored on walk of fame Walk of Fame reception set for 10:30 a.m. July 4 at Enumclaw City Hall By Kevin Hanson
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dward J. Saylor – one of the dwindling few who actively participated in the famed Doolittle Toyko Raid – will be honored as the sixth person
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enshrined in Enumclaw’s Walk of Fame. Saylor will be featured during an hourlong reception beginning at 10:30 a.m. July 4 at Enumclaw City Hall. He will be given a ceremonial key to the city and the plaque bearing his name will be unveiled. The public is invited to attend the ceremony, meet the 2013 honoree and hear stories of the Doolittle Raid. Later on the Fourth, Saylor will ride through the annual Stars and Stripes parade as grand marshal. The plaque engraved with Saylor’s name will join five others at the corner of Griffin Avenue and First Street. Saylor, who retired from the U.S. Air Force with the rank of lieutenant colonel, recently related some of his adventures to
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See SAYLOR, Page 3
What steps can be taken to assure Enumclaw has a happy and healthy economic future? That’s the question a select group of nine citizens wrangled with from May 2012 through this spring. Following months of study and debate, meetings and review, their findings and recommendations have been made public. A draft version of their report was typed up and committee members are now offering oral roundups to civic groups throughout the community. The report’s summary does not ignore the negative – on the contrary, it is
See ECONOMIC, Page 3
Sgt. Edward Saylor, flight engineer, far right, with the crew of plane No. 15, “TNT.,” from left, pilot Lt. Donald Smith, co-pilot Lt. Griffith Williams, bombardier Lt. Howard Sessler and flight surgeon Lt. Thomas White. Courtesy photo.
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