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County wide Party Patrol puts dent in teen drinking
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Spike & the Impalers
By Theresa De Lay Staff Writer
Tunes @ Tapps begins July 10 with a farmer’s market at 5 p.m. and free concert at 6:30 p.m.
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The forecast today, Wednesday, calls for mostly sunny skies with a high to 76 and overnight lows 54. Partly sunny skies continue Thursday and Friday with highs to 71 and lows to 53. Saturday’s forecast is for mostly cloudy weather and Sunday mostly sunny with highs to 79.
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Devan Reichert, 16, from Lake Tapps, fits a headband on 4-year-old Hope Brunner at the Maple Valley Farmers Market. Reichert’s business is Designs by Devan and she sells her bands and hair clips each week at the market Photo by Dennis Box
Last month, Pierce County’s Party Intervention Patrol arrested 32 underage drinkers at a house party. The bust primarily involved Puyallup and Emerald Ridge high school students, but underage drinking is a county-wide concern. Local law enforcement, chemical dependency professionals and parent volunteers have participated in the Party Intervention Patrol since its conception by the Tacoma Pierce County DUI and Traffic Safety Task Force in 2007. The program is funded by the Washington Impaired Driving Council. The purpose of the program is to discourage underage binge drinking — while simultaneously targeting driving under the influence — and so far, it has worked. Acting
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Bids are in for Eastown sewer expansion plans By Daniel Nash Staff Writer
Sewers will come to Bonney Lake’s Eastown soon. Public Works Director Daniel Grigsby wrote city staff and other stakeholders July 1 to announce bids were in on the contract to extend the city’s sewer into the area east of 214th Avenue East.
The contract will extend a sewer line from the existing lift station located underneath the section of state Route 410 in front of the Safeway, down 96th Street East to the approximate location of the as-yet-nonexistent 225th Avenue. Construction of a sewer lift station north of 96th Street East will be put to bid under a separate contract, to be advertised later this summer.
The low bid on the extension project submitted by Johannson Excavating was $692,889.30, an amount more than $250,000 less than the engineer’s cost estimate. The high bid was $931,753.50, still more than $11,000 below the estimate. Seven total bids were received by the city. “After city staff reviews the bid
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with the low bidder, we anticipate running this contract award through the (July 9) Finance Committee and then the (July 23) City Council meeting prior to awarding this contract,” Grigsby wrote. “Anticipate construction would start no earlier than the first week in August.” A completion deadline on the extension will be established after the contract is awarded.
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