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Recall official, selection of new Pacific mayor under way

By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

With Cy Sun’s recall as mayor of Pacific officially certified by King County Elections of Tuesday morning, the City Council wasted no time getting on with the business of choosing the City’s

mayor for the next two years.

At a special meeting that same evening, council members separately interviewed then nominated John Jones and Leanne Guier as candidates, on Wednesday they hosted a public question-and-answer forum, and on Thursday were expected to choose

between the two council members.

Results were unavailable as of press time.

Upon the official validation of Sun’s recall, the final tally was 949 (65.4 percent) votes in favor of Sun’s recall, and 502 (34.6 percent) in favor of retaining the former mayor.

With 1,453 of the 3,016 ballots that had been issued counted, the official voter turnout was 49 percent.

Upon certification, Mayor Pro Tem James McMahan temporarily assumed the duties of mayor and issued his first [ more PACIFIC page 14 ]

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King County launches levee project

By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

ROAR FROM THE PAST The Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts (SOVREN) hosted the annual Pacific Northwest Historics Vintage Races at Pacific Raceways last weekend.

The event attracts hundreds of cars, and thousands of enthusiasts and spectators

to raise money for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. Among the many classic cars that took to the raceway’s 2.25-mile road course were Porsches, BMWs, Alfa Romeos, Ferraris and MGs . Story, page 12. shawn skager, Auburn Reporter

King County kicked off the Reddington Levee Setback project at Brannan Park on Tuesday afternoon, launching the largest flood-risk reduction project since the King County Flood Control District formed in 2007.

Affecting some 596 properties in Auburn, 321 residential and 275 commercial, the project will remove the existing levee and builds its replacement further west from the river. It will extend the levee 6,600 feet north from 26th Street at the southern boundary of Brannan Park to the northern boundary of Monterey Park.

According to King County officials, the levee, built more than 50 years ago to provide flood protection to surrounding agricultural lands [ more LEVEE page 3 ]

Friends mourn loss of ‘good guy,’ downtown man

By ROBERT WHALE

Cab driver killed in collision on holiday weekend

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Sheryl Comb’s eyes water, the words strain and trail off into silence.

One week after a man, allegedly drunk, ran a red light and smashed his SUV into a taxi at Auburn Way

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North and East Main Street, killing cabbie Brian Love, 56, on impact, Combs still reels in a vortex of shock and grief.

She and Love had been together for more than seven years. Love was Combs’ fiancé. He was her world.

“He was a good guy,” Combs said,

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next to friends Monday outside the Rainbow Cafe on East Main Street, Love’s downtown hangout for more than 20 years.

“I am numb. I keep expecting him to walk through the door,” Combs said. [ more LOVE page 14 ]

Brian Love was a beloved friend, a colorful man who enjoyed being a part of Auburn and the happenings along Main Street.

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The long-awaited opening of Auburn’s M Street Southeast underpass is scheduled for Monday, July 22 after a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1 p.m.

The ceremony will be at the intersection of 4th Street Southeast and M Street Southeast. The public is invited to attend.

The project, which began construction in February 2012, separates M Street Southeast from the at-grade Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) Railway’s Stampede Pass rail crossing.

“We know the closure of M Street Southeast has been a major inconvenience for our citizens,” said Mayor Pete Lewis. “But now, the road will be safer and more functional for vehicles, pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as alleviate traffic congestion well into the future.”

Funding for the project came from multiple sources, including contributions from the Port of Seattle, Port of Tacoma, BNSF Railway, the Washington State Transportation Improvement Board (TIB), the Washington State Freight Mobility and Strategic Investment Board (FMSIB), the Washington State Public Works Trust Fund Board, Federal grants, the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks-Wastewater Treatment Division, and local funds.

Total cost of the project is $22.3 million.

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we get phase 1 built, all the residents of this mobile home park will be much better protected than they are today.”

While the project will widen the channel and provide increased flood protection, it will also provide ecological benefits. Without the existing levee and its underwater armoring, the river will meander within a wider corridor, making it more free flowing and offering more natural ecological processes and benefits for fish.

Significantly, because the westward relocation of the levee will displace 16 mobile homes, additional property had to be purchased to replace what’s lost.

Those mobile homes also had to be replaced.

and prone to seepage, is not up to today’s design and construction standards.

Not that the residents in River Mobile Estates need to be told that the present levee isn’t up to snuff. The water that sloshes through the park when the river rises is a yearly problem.

The problem is that its makers put the present levee on the river side of a former channel, which is a wetland today. So while the levee keeps the flood within the channel, it cuts off the wetland that stores the water at the same time, backing it up and flooding the adjacent mobile home park.

Devastating flooding impacts are possible if a flood exceeds the channel capacity through that section of the river.

The second phase – in the early discussion stage only – would extend the levee beyond the northern end of Phase 1 to S. 277th Street.

There is no money for Phase 2 – not yet. But City officials hope that by the time the first phase is finished, the KCFCD will have the money * and be ready to roll. But even if this final phase is not built for years, City Public Works Director Dennis Dowdy told • Up to 5 qts of Motorcraft® Premium • Inspect brake system members of the Planning and Synthetic Blend Oil and filter change • Test battery • Rotate and inspect 4 tires • Check belts and hoses Community Development • Check air and cabin filters • Top off all fluids Committee earlier this year, *After mail-in rebate. Discount also eligible for The Works with Full Synthetic the new levee will stand on its ® Oil and The Works Power Stroke Diesel Package. See service advisor for, vehicle restrictions and details. Purchases must be made by 8/31/13. own as a significant improvement for the residents of River Mobile Home Estates.

“It does provide for the mobile home park a tremendous benefit that we don’t have right now, which Mon-Fri 7:30am-7:00pm • Sat 8:00am-4:30pm is they have a very seeping 501 Auburn Way N • 253-833-1500 levee in front of them now,” said Dowdy. “The moment

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The day care program for Auburn’s Camp Berachah is the new home for one of King County’s newest “retirees.” King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn, third from left, recently visited the camp to hand over the keys of a retired Metro van. “Camp Berachah’s Day Care Program has been a positive influence and served the greater Auburn region for a number of years,” said Dunn, who donated the van to the camp. “I am pleased to be able to hand over this retired van so that Camp Berachah Day Care can best serve the children that attend this fine organization.”

City leaders got a look this week at what Auburn’s animal control officer has been up to since starting in January.

Among the things the stats in the report, Auburn Animal Control Second Quarter Review, reveal – more and more Auburn residents are calling 911 to request animal control services.

And that ACO George Winner has been one busy man.

“If we had to sit here and ask ourselves if there is a need (for animal control services),” Police Cmdr.

William Pierson told members of the Municipal Services Committee Monday as they scanned the report, “There is most definitely a need.”

The ACO’s main responsibilities are enforcing animal control ordinances, assuring proper licensing of applicable animals and teaching residents about animal care and control.

Here is what the report has to say about animal control-related calls for service over the first six months of 2013: • 911 dispatched calls for service: up 18.7 percent • Calls residents make directly to the ACO: up 91.2 percent • Calls self-initiated by the ACO as he is driving around: up 142.9 percent • Wildlife-related calls: up 133.3 percent • Calls for service by other police officers to the ACO: down 25 percent • Deceased domestic animal calls: up 20 percent.

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The report also details the number of animal control reports, citations and infractions issued, as follows: • Contacts with residents in person, by phone or via e-mail: up 57 percent • Police reports written: up 74 percent • Animals impounded: up 78 percent • Criminal citations issued to Auburn residents: up 550 percent • Number of infractions issued to Auburn residents: up 606 percent • Written warnings: up 80.3 percent.

Most of the infractions fall within the $30 range.

On another matter, the City recently entered into a contract with the Sumner Veterinary Clinic to control animal control-related costs. Any time an animal is injured, taken in by a citizen or impounded by the ACO and the owner can’t be found, the City has to pay the costs. The instruction in the contract with the Sumner Veterinary Clinic directs that the animal be treated only for pain control and comfort.

“Of course, that’s fairly vague, and depending on the veterinarian, that could mean a whole lot,” said Auburn Police Chief Bob Lee. “We were seeing some vet bills that were rather high and we probably wouldn’t be able to sustain that, so entered into an agreement with Sumner Vet where they would not exceed $150 per animal. That’s only in the event we can’t locate an owner.”

Lee said the City made the same offer to Auburn veterinarians, and they turned it down.

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Police Blotter Auburn police responded to the following calls for service, among many others, between July 5 and July 8:

July 5 Vandalism: 6:30 a.m., 800 4th St. NE. A person or persons unknown shattered one of Auburn High School’s auto shop windows.

Car theft: 7:30 a.m., 310 block of 50th Street Southeast. The driver of a gold 1999 Nissan Pathfinder left the keys in the car and somebody stole it.

Theft: 5:30 p.m., 1101 Supermall Way SW. A girl lost her purse at the Supermall and somebody took it.

Trespassing: 1:06 p.m., 1102 Auburn Way S. Police told a man he better not show his face again in Les Gove Park until 2023.

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CPS referral: 2:13 p.m., C Street Northwest. With their mother too drunk to care for them, two children were taken into protective custody.

Child Protective Services is investigating.

The Valley Firefighters Union recently organized a towel drive that collected 250 towels and blankets for the Auburn Valley Humane Society. Valley Regional Fire Authority employees brought in the items to help provide bedding for animals waiting for adoption.

From left: VRFA Capt. John Went; AVHS Director Phil Morgan; Argo the dog; VRFA employees Kelly Tyson and Gwen Streeter; Firefighters Jordan Gustafson and Doug Alexander. COURTESY PHOTO

Space still available for VRFA’s free, hands-on fire extinguisher training The Valley Regional Fire Authority offers free hands-on fire extinguisher training on Wednesday, July 17.

Training sessions are open to Algona,

Auburn, and Pacific businesses and residents.

Spaces are available for hour-long training sessions beginning at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Training is at Headquarters Fire Station 31, 1101 D St. NE, Auburn.

Participants will learn how to select and properly maintain a portable

Trespassing: 5:33 p.m., 3030 R St. SE. Two men, a boy and a girl got the boot from Game Farm Park. Bad deal for one of the men, the star of his own misdemeanor warrant for domestic violence and malicious mischief.

fire extinguisher, and how to extinguish small fires safely. A live fire demonstration will give students the opportunity for hands-on practice with a fire extinguisher.

To register, or ask any questions, please contact the VRFA public education staff at public.info@vrfa.org or call 253-288-5881 or 253-288-5882.

Burglary: 9 a.m., 400 block of 25th Street Southeast. Somebody stole a pressure washer from an Auburn residence.

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July 3 Aid call: 9:10 p.m., (Pacific). Firefighters and King County Medics evaluated a woman whose internal

DUI alcohol or drugs: 11:28 p.m., 4900 Auburn Way N. Police arrested a man for vehicular assault after he hit a motorcycle.

July 6 Animal problem: 9:58 a.m., 4201 A St. SE. Somebody found a micro-chipped dog, but because the owner could not be found, the peregrinating pooch was released to the Auburn Valley Humane Society.

Trespassing: 2:44 p.m., 1100 Auburn Way S. Police ordered a man to stay away from the Les Gove complex and its parking lot, and from the senior center and youth center parking lot.

Theft of keys: 9:30 a.m., 710 I St. NE. Somebody stole a man’s keys at a yard sale.

July 8 Vandalism: 6:07 a.m., 711 E. Main St. Yahoos broke numerous windows on mobile construction offices at the new Auburn High School construction site.

Burglary: Overnight, 1801 R St. SE. An employee of Public Storage reported that burglars had cut a section of fence and burglarized several storage units. It was unclear what, if anything, was stolen.

Theft: 1:53 p.m., 900 29th St. NW. Some thieving gink scuttled off with somebody’s lawn ornaments.

Fraud: 5:20 p.m., 401 37th St. SE. Con artists employing a check cashing scam swindled a woman out of $1,400.

Robbery: 1 p.m., 30400 block of 51st Avenue South. Robbers robbed two men at gunpoint. The suspects were not located because the robbery was reported three days later.

defibrillator had activated, and a private ambulance transported her to Good Samaritan Hospital in Puyallup.

July 4 Brush fire: 9:48 p.m., (Lakeland Hills). Firefighters used hose lines to keep a brush fire in check on a steep embankment in Lakeland Hills until they could climb down the hill to extinguish the fire. Fireworks were the likely culprit.

July 5 Aid call: 8:19 a.m., (Auburn).

Firefighters helped an older woman who’d been complaining of hip and abdominal pain and transported her to MAMC for more treatment.

July 6 Unauthorized burning: 9 p.m., (Lea Hill). Firefighters responding to a reported backyard burn in a fire pit discovered that the owners had not acquired the proper permit for the recreational fire, so they schooled them in the methods for future recreational fires.

July 7 Aid call: 11:23 a.m., (south Auburn). Firefighters responded to an Auburn senior with chest pain, treated him at the scene, and transported him in stable condition to a local hospital.

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The Auburn City Council will decide Monday whether to approve the proposed construction of a joint American/Vietnamese war memorial at Veterans Memorial Park.

The monument will honor not only American veterans of the Vietnam War but also acknowledge and remember the sacrifices South Vietnamese soldiers made fighting alongside their allies.

Initial plans for the memorial call for a bronze statue of an American soldier and nurse helping a wounded Vietnamese soldier, flanked by American and South Vietnamese flags.

According to proponents of the memorial, the intent is to remember those who fought and sacrificed fighting for freedom in Vietnam and to provide an avenue for education and healing for those who still bear the physical, emotional and mental scars of the war four decades later.

That’s why it is mind-boggling that there is any opposition to its construction, especially in Auburn, with its rich tradition of honoring veterans.

Most of the controversy seems to center on the shared nature of the monument. It’s an opposition that comes as no surprise to those who fought to erect similar monuments in Arlington and Houston, Texas, as well as in Westminster, Calif.

Retired Army Lt. Col. Craig H. Mandeville served as executive director of the Westminister Vietnam War Memorial Committee.

For seven years, Mandeville – a decorated Vietnam veteran who served two tours of duty, receiving two Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars and three Purple Heart medals – led the planning and construction of the memorial, which is similar in purpose and scope to the proposed Auburn monument. [ more SKAGER page 6 ]

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Community loses a ‘nice guy’ Regarding: Brian Love, the cab driver who died in a traffic accident in downtown Auburn last week.

My contact with Brian was almost exclusively through my participation over the years with Auburn Good ‘Ol Days.

For many years, I provided sound systems for the various entertainment stages and frequently would find myself handing over the microphone to Brian as he performed his announcing chores.

He was always dressed neatly, looking the part of the professional announcer or master of ceremonies that he was while imparting the information you needed to know with that wonderful voice that carried with it a quality that made you want to take a listen.

The Auburn Reporter welcomes letters to the editor on any subject. Letters must include a name, address and daytime phone number for verification purposes.

Letters may be edited for length. Letters should be no more than 250 words in length.

Submissions may be printed both in the paper and electronically.

Deadline for letters to be considered for publication is 2 p.m. Tuesday.

I am sad. He always interacted with me as an equal, always a friendly word and from my limited perspective seemed to me to be just a “nice guy.” I am saddened that our paths will not cross again.

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Resilient community pulls together for Cullen Every great cause requires a person to stop forward and make that dream a reality. Several years ago I had the pleasure of working with a leader in our town who underestimated her ability to make the dream of a critically ill young man come true.

In 2008 Cullen Steele was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension, a disease that requires the

Kent boy to take a battery of drugs, including wearing a backpack that administers medication intravenously at sixminute intervals. Cullen, then a third-grader at Holy Family School in Auburn, was told he would eventually need a heart, double-lung transplant.

But before the specialists at Stanford University would put him

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on the transplant list, his family had to raise $75,000 to help pay for expenses that wouldn’t be covered by his medical insurance.

Fortunately for the Steele family, there is an organization called the Children’s Organ Transplant Organization, COTA, that exists just for this purpose. The people at COTA met with the family and local volunteers to organize a one year fundraising campaign. At this point, Amy O’Donnell-Riley

I feel compelled to say that Brian Love was a unique individual who was a colorful, grass roots fixture in downtown Auburn.

Brian loved Main Street and to lose him there would be just too contradictory. He had a restaurant at Auburn Avenue and Main. He lived on Main and walked to and from his local stops downtown daily.

He attended any event that was happening up and down Main Street for most of his life, and the Rainbow Café was his favorite spot.

Brian presided as announcer at the Auburn Days main stage and the grand parade for almost two decades. He started back when it was called Good Ol’ Days. His deep, velvety toned voice would resonate [ more letters page 7 ]

stepped in to be the coordinator to help make Cullen Steele’s dream come true.

Amy had a worthy cause and dedicated volunteers to help. But the path was rough. There were people who questioned why the focus on one kid, when there were plenty of people in need. Her pitch to a group of local government employees was turned down in favor of another charity. And as the year progressed it looked more and more unlikely that we were going to achieve the $75,000 goal. [ more BROOKE page 8 ]

[6] July 12 , 2013 [ SKAGER from page 5 ] In an email sent to Senior Vice Commander Mike Sepal of Auburn’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1741, Mandeville wrote about the resistance he encountered working on his city’s memorial, which was unveiled in April 2003.

“Persons who protest must keep in mind that the war is over. We are not talking about saying the war is right or wrong, whether the Vietnamese fought or did not fight, whether they are good citizens here or not,” Mandeville wrote.

According to Mandeville, who worked closely with the Republic of South Vietnam Army as an advisor during the war, much of the opposition to such joint American/Vietnamese memori-

www.auburn-reporter.com als comes from the low opinion many American soldiers held for their Vietnamese counterparts.

“I hated the (South Vietnam Army) from my first tour with the 101st Airborne (1967-68),” Mandeville wrote. “I was a battery commander and my unit was overrun. We found out that the local militia who was providing our security had let them in.”

During his second tour in 1972 as a regimental advisor, Mandeville said his opinion changed.

“I witnessed how they had looked at the war and saw first hand that they could and would fight as well, or better, than the U.S. Had I not had that tour, I would feel like many Vietnam vets feel about (them).”

Mandeville said he feels that a monument in Auburn will provide local vets, American and

Vietnamese, and their families a place to heal, much as the memorial in Westminster did.

“The end product will provide closure for the majority of those opposed, but more importantly, it will provide our vets a welcome home,” he wrote. “And for those who were killed, it ensures they will not be forgotten and help keep the focus on the (prisoners of war and missing in action). “… For the Vietnamese, it protects their flag, which they lost when their country was lost,” he added. “We cannot ever feel the same as they do. They lost their country, something, thank God, we have never had to face. It is important to try to appreciate that loss, and we can help ease that pain when we have the flag of free Vietnam flying for them to see.”

Auburn Wine Art Music Festival comes to downtown on July 20 For the Reporter

Auburn Wine Art Music Festival returns to the downtown on July 20.

The Auburn Downtown Association, the City of Auburn, City of Auburn Arts, Parks and Recreation Department, and the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce/Tourism are presenting the festival.

“We’re excited about our new location this year,” said program coordinator Kelly Jensen. “In addition to the Wine Art Music Festival, we’ll have the Merchants Market on Main, specialty vendors and other activities.”

The festival begins with family fun, including local food, vendors and children’s dance performances from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

A wine tasting garden opens at 2 p.m. in the mural parking lot at the corner of B and Main streets. Wine and beer tasting ends at 10 p.m.

The main stage will present local bands from 1 to 10 p.m. and Zola’s Café, 402 E. Main St., No. 120, will host live music from 2 to 6:30 p.m.

For a discount coupon on wine tasting tickets, go to Valpak.com.

Visit www.auburndt.org for more information.

PUBLIC NOTICE On June 25, 2013, Northwest Pipeline GP (“Northwest”) filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) requesting a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity authorizing Northwest to construct, own and operate the Washington Expansion Project in western Washington.

ABOUT THE PROJECT Northwest has been asked by Oregon LNG to transport an incremental 750,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas to an interconnect with Oregon Pipeline LLC’s proposed Oregon Pipeline near Woodland, Wash.

To accommodate this request, Northwest plans to construct the Washington Expansion Project, which will require the installation of additional pipeline and compression facilities on the existing Northwest system in the state of Washington.

The project consists of installing approximately 140 miles of 36-inch diameter pipeline loop in ten segments along Northwest’s existing pipeline system in the I-5 corridor between Sumas and Woodland.

Northwest will also upgrade its existing compressor stations at Sumas, Mt. Vernon, Snohomish, Sumner and Chehalis, Wash.

If the project stays on schedule, the work would begin on the pipeline in the spring of 2017, with an in-service date for the pipeline and terminal in November 2018.

Construction and operation of the project will create jobs and produce revenues that benefit the state of Washington, which, in turn, benefits the overall U.S. economy. Local communities would benefit from the property taxes that Northwest would pay during the ongoing operation of the pipeline. These taxes are conservatively estimated to be approximately $13 million per year.

WHERE TO VIEW THE APPLICATION Northwest’s full application with the FERC may be viewed at the following public libraries: Auburn 1102 Auburn Way South Auburn, WA 98002 253-931-3018 Black Diamond 24707 Roberts Drive Black Diamond WA 98010 360-886-1105 Castle Rock Public Library 137 Cowlitz Street West Castle Rock, WA 98611 360-274-6961

Centralia Timberland Library 110 S. Silver Street Centralia, WA 98531 360-736-0183 Chehalis Timberland Library 400 N. Market Boulevard Chehalis, WA 98532 360-748-3301 Covington 27100 164th Avenue SE Covington, WA 98042 253-630-8761

Deming Library 5044 Mount Baker Highway Deming, WA 98244-0357 360-592-2422 Issaquah 10 W. Sunset Way Issaquah, WA 98027 425-392-5430 Kalama Library 312 North 1st Street Kalama, WA 98625 360-673-4568 Kelso Library 351 Three Rivers Drive Kelso, WA 98626 Three Rivers Mall 360-423-8110 Monroe Library 1070 Village Way Monroe, WA 98272-2035 360-794-7851 Sammamish 825 228th Avenue SE Sammamish, WA 98075 425-392-3130 Sedro-Woolley Public Library 802 Ball Street Sedro-Woolley, WA 98284 360-855-1166

Snohomish Library 311 Maple Avenue Snohomish, WA 98290-2525 360-568-2898 South Hill 15420 Meridian East South Hill, WA 98375 253-548-3303 Sumas Library 451 2nd Street Sumas, WA 98295-0212 360-988-2501 Sumner 1116 Fryar Avenue Sumner, WA 98390 253-548-3306 Winlock Public Library 322 NE 1st Street Winlock, WA 98596 360-785-3461 Woodland Public Library 770 Park Street Woodland, WA 98674 360-225-2115

Landowners may also review the complete application and discuss alignment sheets with Williams’ land agents at: Williams Washington Expansion Project Land Office 15406 Meridian Avenue East, Suite 101 Puyallup, WA 98375 Tel: 253-864-4967 In addition, you may review the application through the FERC website: www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. You’ll need to enter docket number CP13-507 in the search box.

A separate notice of this project is being mailed to all potentially affected landowners and government entities. A FERC pamphlet entitled “An Interstate Natural Gas Facility on My Land? What Do I Need to Know?” is available on the FERC website at http://www.ferc.gov/for-citizens/citizen-guides.asp.

Questions about the pamphlet should be directed to the FERC’s Office of External Affairs at 202-502-8004.

For more information about the Washington Expansion project, call toll free 888-892-8905 or email us at WashingtonExpansion@Williams.com Please visit our website at washingtonexpansion.com.

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room only. Every Seattle newspaper and TV station was there, and they had a lot to report on. We brought in the flags, and then I opened it up and shared my story of being a nurse at the 12th Evacuation Hospital, Cu Chi, Vietnam and my vision for healing for all of us, both American and Vietnamese veterans. Then Thu shared her story and vision. From there, we alternated the sharing of stories, one American and one Vietnamese.

After the first set of soldier’s stories, the two men hugged each other and cried together, and that continued throughout the event, story after story followed by hugs and crying. The men began to understand there was plenty of pain and suffering to go around. It was time to heal, and they began it that very day.

I went back to Vietnam in 1996 on the first Peacetrees Vietnam Trip and was able to return to Cu Chi. The one place I found a small replica of the flag of the Republic of Vietnam was a Catholic church. I took a picture of it. That flag is the one we as veterans know and remember. We were there to help fight for that flag to continue to wave, for Vietnam to be a democracy so the people could be free.

We lost that fight. Let us not lose the fight to heal our veterans and their families.

From Veterans Day 1986 the Vietnamese soldiers have been marching with us in the Veterans Day Parade.

Now our two flags can wave beside each other in Veterans Memorial Park, and it can be a place of healing for all of us.

MY VIEW

As a nurse Vietnam veteran and local Auburn resident, I support the joint American/Vietnamese Memorial proposed for Veterans Memorial Park.

I am not surprised that there is some opposition from veteran groups. That happened in 1985 as well.

Back in 1985 when I was focused on my own healing and that of my brother veterans, I connected with a Vietnamese hospital worker called Thu Van Nguyen who was also working on healing for her community of Vietnamese veterans. Together we began to share our passion for healing and our vision for how to do that.

We came up with a plan to bring all the veterans together at Veterans Hall at Seattle Center on Veterans Day 1985. We called it Recognition/Friendship Day. There was a lot of apposition from all of the American Veterans organizations. They were not yet healed and were still hurt and angry at what took place in 1975 and how they were treated when they came home.

I understood their reactions and believed they needed what we were proposing. I spent a lot of time supporting Thu Van Nguyen when she was frightened and wanted to back out. I stayed positive and trusted that it would all work out well if we could sustain ourselves and what we believed.

When the day finally arrived, it was one of the most healing and emotionally moving events that had taken place in support of our Vietnam and Vietnamese veterans.

The Veterans Hall was packed and had standing

Sarah L. Blum, ARNP, is a nurse psychotherapist, Vietnam War veteran and author.

[ LETTERS from page 5 ] over the crowd like a big smile was being sent your way. He was the embodiment of the “downtown” guy that knew the news on Main.

He was like a portable “pickle barrel” when people used to meet at a general store to share tidbits.

When he began driving a cab his goal was to keep drunken drivers off the road. He would pop in and out to visit the festival and just enjoy it. But he couldn’t resist being the announcer when he saw me. He would do a full blown introduction just like he did on stage because he knew it would make me blush. He was a character.

Brian’s history goes back to being a DJ for KASY Radio (located on West Main) that brought the local news and sports to our Auburn radios to keep us informed at a community. He was a quirky, gentle, sauntering kind of guy that would show up at Auburn City Council meetings on a regular basis, just to keep things lively. You always knew that things would get interesting when Brian showed up.

We would like to invite anyone who loved Brian to bring a banner and have a “Don’t drink and drive” entry in the parade in his memory Aug. 10.

Contact office@eventheadquartersinc.com if you want to register and have his memory walk Main Street one more time.

– Connie Henke

Fireworks are not what the Fourth is all about Thank you, Muckleshoot, and all the morons who bought fireworks that shake the entire block when they go off.

Thank you, on behalf of my Downs daughter, who is scared to death and crying.

Thank you, on behalf of the 82-year-old neighbor lady, who is standing in her front yard shaking because she is confused and thinks a war started.

Thank you, for all the animals in my neighborhood that are scared to death and don’t understand what’s happening. Thank you, for three other neighbors with babies crying.

Thanks, that in the morning I will have litter all over my yard and street. And I especially thank you, on behalf of all the veterans with PTSD who are flashing back to the worst time of their lives.

This is not what the Fourth is about.

Just who removes campaign signs?

Campaign signs – we all love to hate them. They tend to clutter our streets and view, but they are the necessary tool to let all of us know who is running for office.

Yes, there are newspapers and other resources to alert us, but we don’t all read, so it seems these signs are the best way to know who is running for office.

What I find very disturbing is to see signs go up for the candidates then you start noticing that just one candidate’s sign is slowly missing, or broken, or simply pulled up and left on the side of the road. This can’t be blamed on those who are walking by, as they would probably vandalize all the signs, not just those of one specific candidate.

So that leads me to wonder. One candidate’s signs are down, broken, missing. The other candidate’s signs are still up and pristine. Who do you think damaged the first candidate’s signs? Surely, not the candidate. Perhaps that candidate’s “peeps” were charged with the task?

If that’s the case, I couldn’t and wouldn’t vote for a candidate whose “peeps” are the new thugs in town.

We don’t need mafia technics running our city.

I’m watching this kind of activity very closely, listening and reading when I hear the “peeps” of both sides talking about their chosen candidate. If the “peeps” aren’t reliable, and working for positive and constructive solutions, neither will the candidate. Anger and mob practices won’t “clean up this city.”

Voters, chose wisely.

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Four reasons Auburn needs Riker-Yap While driving through the area one day I was thinking that Auburn needs new leadership on the City Council. Jodi Riker-Yap is that person.

She does not belong to the elite club that runs the city currently.

Jodi has the courage to stand firm in opposition to what she feels will not be of benefit to the community. She will require accountability before each vote.

Accountability. Approachable.

Compassion. Integrity.

Get to know Jodi, and you will see what I mean.

– Randall Smith

Corrections Due to reporter error the architect/artist for the proposed Joint American/Vietnamese War Memorial was misidentified in the July 5 issue of the Auburn Reporter. The actual artist is Jason LeTran.

The Auburn Reporter misidentified Denis Law in his guest column in the July 5 edition.

Vote Backus for mayor When considering and comparing candidates for mayor of our

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wonderful city, there has to be thought given to the strengths of a person in terms of human skills, technical and conceptual skills.

Nancy Backus has those skills.

These skills are necessary to being a successful leader. Nancy Backus has displayed these skills while serving Auburn as a council person.

And, important, she has displayed them in the many community activities she has been a part of beyond her service as a council member.

The mechanics of operating our city are in place. We need someone with the experience and people skills ability to keep us going in the direction that benefits all of us.

Our leader represents each of us as citizens. Nancy Backus, with her skills, along with her creditability and integrity, possesses the qualities that I feel good about.

I am so sorry, dear Muckleshoot Nation, that you don’t make enough money on the casino that you have to bring terror to my neighborhood.

Oh, and thanks for all those who had to get up in the morning, go to work and listen to this crap till 3 in the morning. Maybe if you lived here in Southeast Auburn you would only sell legal fireworks. It’s not just on the Fourth, but we have to listen to (the fireworks) from the time you start selling them in early June til 10 days after the Fourth.

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[8] July 12 , 2013 [ brooke from page 5 ] At one point of great frustration Amy was talking to me about whether or not she was the right person to lead this effort.

She said, “I must be the world’s worst COTA coordinator.”

I lamented with her, offered encouragement, and remembered the comment.

Amy and her band of believers stayed the course. Auburn pastor Don Stevenson walked 1,200 miles throughout the state of Washington to raise money for the cause.

A Buddy Holly tribute concert at the Auburn Avenue Theater brought the community together, raised money, and spread the word about Cullen.

Friends and classmates “donated their birthdays” by asking for support for COTA instead of gifts. A Brownie troop donated their part of cookie sales to the cause.

And during one particularly low point, Leon Sanders, the father of one of Cullen’s classmates, walked into an organization meeting with three checks totaling more than $6,000 – the results of scrap metal contributions by local businesses.

As the good news piled up, I frequently had the chance to kid Amy by telling her, “Not bad for the ‘world’s worst COTA coor-

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At play: Cullen Steele, third from left, and friends at a Fabulous Murphtones benefit concert. COURTESY PHOTO

You can help Cullen Cullen Steele is now 14 and a priority candidate for the transplant list. He now carries two backpacks to deliver critical medication on an around-the-clock basis. Getting on the transplant list depends on his ability to have transportation from his Seattle area home to San Francisco in four hours or less – at a moment’s notice.

If you can help in that area, please contact Dennis Brooke at dennis@dennisbrooke.com. If you’d like to make a tax deductible contribution to Cullen’s COTA fund go to cota.donorpages.com/PatientOnlineDonation/COTAforCullenS/ You also can go to www.COTA.org and search for Cullen Steele.

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dinator.’ ” But as the year wound down it looked like we would fall short of the $75,000 goal.

Amy rallied her team.

Pastor Stevenson talked a local choir into a benefit concert that raised more than $10,000. Leon organized a community scrap drive, and in the end the “World’s Worst COTA coordinator” raised more than $79,000. Because we beat the one-year deadline,

COTA added $15,000 in matching funds for a total of nearly $100,000.

Sometimes success is showing up, recruiting fellow believers, and persevering through tough times. Fortunately for Cullen Steele and his family, Amy O’Donnell-Riley was there to do that.

Dennis Brooke tells stories about life, leadership and sometimes Auburn at www. dennisbrooke.com.

FUN ON THE FOURTH Auburn celebrated the Fourth of July in traditional style on Thursday at Les Gove Park.

Festivities included live entertainment on two stages, a book sale, an arts and craft grove, bingo, food concessions and activities for the kids.

There were also rides and a kids’ bike parade (above). Alexis Miranda (right) tries the zip line.

Radio Disney AM 1250, 100.7 The Wolf, Auburn’s Overcomer Covenant Church and MultiCare Auburn Medical Center supported the festival.

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Shanel’s mother, 28-year-old Diana Flaggard – a Kid’s Country employee – died in a car accident in Burien on May 13.

Advance tickets are $10 for the event, which will run from 8-10 a.m., and can be purchased by calling Kid’s Country at 253931-1993.

Applebee’s is at 1441 D St. NE, Auburn.

DONATE TODAY: Auburn Food Bank, 930 18th Place NE. For more information or to volunteer, call 253-833-8925 or visit www. theauburnfoodbank.org.

Pacific Days returns this weekend The City of Pacific hosts its annual Pacific Days celebration this weekend at Pacific City Park, 600 Third Ave. Sponsored by Pacific Partnerships, the event gets under way Friday with the Kid’s Parade. Open to all, participants are encouraged to show off their decorated bikes, trikes or wagons as they parade down Third

Avenue from the Pacific Algona Community Center to Pacific City Park.

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For 25 years, the Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts (SOVREN) has hosted the annual Pacific Northwest Historics Races.

Every year the charitable event attracts hundreds of cars and thousands of enthusiasts and spectators to Pacific Raceways to raise money for the Seattle Children’s Hospital. To date, the event has raised more than $9 million for the hospital.

The annual event is a smorgasbord of automobile fun for spectators, with some of the region’s finest Porsches, BMWs, Alfa Romeos, Ferraris, MGs and more exotic road iron vying for the checkered flag on Pacific Raceway’s 2.25-mile road course.

In the paddock and pit areas, which are open to the public, fans can shop for auto parts and memorabilia and get close up to racing cars most people only dream of seeing in real life, such as the Porsche 917 driven by Steve McQueen in the 1971 movie “Le

Spectators get a close look at the Porsche 917K that was driven by actor Steve McQueen in the 1971 film “Le Mans.” The car was just one of many attractions at the 25th Pacific Northwest Historics Vintage Races, hosted by the Society of Vintage Racing Enthusiasts (SOVREN) at Pacific Raceways last weekend. The event raises money for Seattle Children’s Hospital. shawn skager, Auburn Reporter Mans”.

For Auburn’s Tana Bryan, known as “The Datsun Lady,” this year’s event is the 18th at which she has volunteered.

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“I wouldn’t miss this for anything,” she said. “I’ve always been into old cars, and it helps Children’s Hospital. It’s also a lot of fun. I bring one of my own cars to the car show every year.

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somebody else’s car following my car.”

Bryan, who runs a Datsun parts supply business, said she first caught the car bug in 1976.

“I got my first (Datsun) for free in 1976, and I still have it,” Bryan said. “It’s a 1968 Datsun Fairlady, and it has about 600,000 miles on it. I drove that as my

daily driver for many years, and I started buying parts cars for it. People wanted parts, so I started selling parts, and I’ve sold them all over the world since then.

So I’ve been running that for about 25 years, and I’m the president of the NWDE (Northwest Datsun Enthusiasts) club.”

In addition to being able to get her classic car fix and show off her Datsuns, Bryan said she has a personal reason for coming every year.

“My daughter was a patient at Seattle Children’s,” she explained. “She has a very rare disease, scleroderma, an auto immune disease.”

For Erica Lange, SOVREN’s secretary, the event is still new.

“I love the raising money for Seattle’s Children Hospital part,” Lange said, clearing spectators out of the way of McQueen’s Porsche as it took to the track. “I’m not as up on all the racing stuff.”

Still, she said, she enjoys the event and the opportunity to help lure in the next generation of car enthusiasts. [ more Sovren page 13 ]

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[ sovren from page 12] “It’s great for the families to get out and just look around,” she said. “We want the public to learn about racing.

We need to build interest because we want people to learn about these cars and vintage racing and get involved.”

Among the several classic cars on display at the track was Jack and Bobbie Berg’s 1956 MGA convertible roadster.

“It’s basically all origi-

nal,” said Berg, an Auburn resident. “It’s been painted but it’s never been restored.”

As he buffed the car’s paint into a higher level of shine with a cloth, Berg shared how he and his wife became the second owner of the British-made gem, which has just 55,778 original miles.

“The original owner is a friend of mine, we sail together,” Berg said.

“And we were at his house for dinner one night, a whole group of us, and he

AUBURN GYM THE GYMNASIUM AT LES GOVE PARK: Participants can drop-in to a variety of programs scheduled throughout the year, including open gym basketball and volleyball, a teen after-school program, an indoor playground designed for ages 5 and younger, family nights, and rock climbing instruction. Organized programs include futsal (an indoor soccer league), volleyball and basketball leagues, specialized recreation leagues, preschool sport classes, rock climbing classes, and birthday party packages. The facility is also available for rentals and other special events. The Gymnasium at Les Gove Park is located at 910 9th St. S.E. For information on any of the programs: Auburn Parks at 253-931-3043, or online at www.auburnwa.gov. Programs include: ADULT OPEN GYM: Monday–Thursday: 11:30-1 p.m., ages 19 and over; additional times as scheduled.

• Monday: Pickleball & Basketball • Tuesday: Volleyball & Basketball • Wednesday: Pickleball & Basketball • Thursday: Volleyball & Basketball If a court is not being used for its scheduled use by noon, it is open for play of any sport. Fees: $3 daily; $15 monthly pass; $40 quarterly pass.

YOUTH AND FAMILY OPEN GYM: Ages 11 and younger must be supervised; Friday: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Fees: $3 adult; $2 senior; $1 youth.

SENIOR OPEN GYM: Ages 50+; Tuesday & Thursday: 9:30-11 p.m. Fees: $2 daily; $10 monthly pass; $25 quarterly pass.

INTRAMURAL BASKETBALL PROGRAM FOR TEENS: An afterschool program for boys and girls in grades 6-12 at the Les Gove Park Gymnasium. The Auburn School District provides transportation from the four middle schools to The Gym between 2:30 and 3 p.m. daily and back to the four middle schools at 5:00 PM daily. $1 daily drop in fee; $25 per 10 week session.

INDOOR PLAYGROUND: For ages 5 and younger. Bring your child for socialization and fun! We provide balls, games, mats, riding toys, climbing toys and more in our gym. No more than three children per adult. No registration required. Parent or caregiver must provide supervision of children at all times. Drop-in fee: $2 per child per session, $1 per additional child; 10-visit punch pass: $15 first child/$10 each additional child. Hours: Monday, Wednesday & Fridays; 9:30-11 a.m., Saturday from 9-10:30 a.m. Playground closed May 27.

a.m. Monday and Friday and 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Monday, Wednesday and Friday; • Open Swim, from 8 to 9:15 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and 1 to 2:30 p.m. Saturday; • Water Aerobics, from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday; and • Open Water Polo, 7:45 to 9:15 p.m.

Thursdays.

Private lessons are also available and the pool is available for rentals.

For cost and more information call 253-939-8825.

ROCK CLIMBING INSTRUCTION: Call 253-931-3043 for complete details.

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• Open Climbing: All Ages 4 and older. Fees: Youth ages 4-19 - $4; Adults 20-49 - $6; Seniors 50 and over - $5

AUBURN PARKS LACROSSE CAMP: July 15-19 at Game Farm Park for ages 6-13. Players will learn the fundamental skills of stick handling,, catching, throwing, cradling and shooting. Cost is $90 for residents, $113 for nonresidents. A $10 supplies fee is due on the first day of camp if campers need lacrosse equipment. Campers are required to provide their own training equipment, including shirt, shoes, shocks, sun screen and water bottle. For more information on any of the programs: Auburn Parks at 253-9313043, or online at www.auburnwa.gov.

• Youth Rocks!: This 90-minute private wall rental is designed just for youth ages 12 and younger. All equipment, belayers, instruction and climbing fun are provided. $12/kid. Minimum 6; Maximum 16.

• Got Belay?: This 2-hour package gives your group of all ages private use of the climbing wall. All equipment, belayers, and instruction are provided. Great for parties and family fun. $15/person.

Minimum 6; Maximum 16.

• Bridge the Gap: This package is designed for groups wanting to develop leadership and teambuilding skills. This program will be customized to meet your groups individual needs. Perfect for teams, clubs, workplace training, youth groups, etc. This program will be customized at time of registration. All equipment, instruction and facilitation are provided. $18/person, Minimum 6.

SWIMMING AUBURN SCHOOL DISTRICT POOL: The Auburn School District Swimming Pool, located at 516 4th St. NE offers several programs including: • Morning Lap Swim from 5:45 to 7:15

AUBURN PARKS TENNIS LESSONS ADULT INTERMEDIATE: Participants will fine tune skills and learn and develop strategy for match play. Instruction will be in a ‘team tennis style’ practice atmosphere with both fundamental instruction and match play. Tennis experience is necessary. It is recommended that participants receive lessons prior to enrollment. Pre-requisite: minimum beginning lessons. Adult lessons are for anyone age 14 and older. Registrants are required to supply their own tennis racket and one can of new unopened tennis balls. For more information on any of the programs: Auburn Parks at 253-931-3043, or online at www. auburnwa.gov.

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hauled this out and said, ‘Is anybody interested?’

Of course I said yeah. My wife said no.”

Berg said after a year of persuasion and an outing to an MG Northwest Centre car club meeting, he finally got the go ahead from the wife.

“Now if I was to leave her or something like that, which wouldn’t happen because we’ve been married 41 years, she’d take the car and give me everything else,” Berg said. “She loves the car that much.”

Berg said he and his wife attend several car shows and events every year, but this one is special.

“This is a charity event, all the profits go to (Seattle) Children’s Hospital and that’s why I’m here,” Berg said. “I love to go to car shows and talk to car people. I don’t want to say car people are the friendliest people in the world, but as a rule they are. I’ve taken this to hot rod shows and been accepted, with all the big chrome V8s with 400 or 600 horsepower. This one, though, is a neat event with all the money going to the hospital. It’s really important.”

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[14] July 12, 2013 [ PACIFIC from page 1 ] official statement, addressing the mayoral selection process and urging the community to unite to put the beleaguered City back on track.

“I hope today can mark the beginning of a new approach in Pacific – one that is inclusive, positive and selfless,” McMahan wrote.

“I look forward to our new mayor leading the charge for that new approach.”

At Tuesday’s special meeting – a continuation of Monday’s regular meeting – Guier and Jones emphasized the need to assess the City’s financial state – the council has not received a financial report since October, Guier said – and to move forward.

Both also underlined the

[ love from page 1 ] Floyd Gonzalez, the driver of the SUV, made his first court appearance Saturday. King County prosecutors charged the 29-year-old Auburn man Wednesday with vehicular homicide and for felony fleeing the scene of an accident. Bail is set at $1 million.

According to the Auburn Police statement of probable cause, at 5:51 a.m. on July 5, an Auburn police officer saw a 2002 Chevrolet Tahoe moving very fast southbound in the outside lane in the 00 block of Auburn Way North. The officer watched the SUV “punch the driver’s side door of the taxi” directly behind the officer’s

www.auburn-reporter.com need to heal the rift that has polarized residents and City staff since Sun’s 2011 campaign for mayor.

“Realistically, the biggest healing I can think of is stability and doing your job and doing it the best you can,” Jones said. “Again, how do you make somebody that thinks differently or opposes you feel good about what you’re doing if they’re opposed to it? I think by trying to bring people together as far as citizens’ committees and input.

“Some of it’s not going to be healed,” Jones conceded.

“Some people may lose their jobs. You can’t look at that and say it’s all going to be all fluffy and hold hands and sing around the campfire. It’s just not going to work. It’s a City and a government, but vehicle, which was traveling eastbound on East Main Street on a green signal. The Tahoe rolled onto its roof, and when it came to a stop, the driver ran off westbound, leaving his injured girlfriend, Latasha Moses, behind in the vehicle. Her condition is unknown.

Officers caught up with the man on South Division Street, where a witness identified him as the driver of the SUV. Post Miranda, according to the statement, Gonzalez admitted he was the driver.

“Officers smelled an obvious odor of intoxicants emanating from the driver and believed he had been consuming alcohol while

it’s still a business, and we have to move forward with that business. Sometimes some feelings will be hurt.

But hopefully, in the long run, if we’re doing our jobs right and the citizens are reaping the benefit of that, then hopefully that will bring some calmness.”

Guier agreed that the priority will be mending the community.

“I think the rift you talk about, or the divide, is pretty deep,” Guier said. “And I think a lot of us feel it in our own neighborhoods. It’s a matter of – I don’t want to talk about the past. Here’s today, here’s a clean slate, let’s move forward.”

Guier added: “We’re all in this together; we care about Pacific. The employees that are here driving”, according to the statement.

Whatever happens to Gonzalez, Love’s friends are left only with vivid memories of the gentle man with the big, bushy beard, a man who should still be living but isn’t.

It is a hard loss for everybody who knew Love to accept.

“A down-to-earth hippie, a mentor of Auburn,” said Vince Cuddy, Love’s friend for some 20 years. Cuddy’s father hired Love eight years ago to drive for Cuddy’s Taxi, and Love was in Cuddy family-owned Tim’s Taxi when he was killed.

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The Pacific City Signal Community News along with Jeanne Fancher and Kathryn Hull, hosts the Pacific 2013 Primary Election Voters Night Candidate Forum from 7:30 to 9:30 Tuesday, July 16 at the Pacific Community Center Gym, 305 Milwaukee Blvd.

The event features a question-and-answer session of candidates for open positions 4 and 5 on the Pacific City Council.

Incumbent Council President Leanne Guier along with Dave Stookey and Vic Kave are running for the position 4 seat, with Stacy May Knudtson, Gary Nitschke and Stacy D. Jackson, Sr. are vying for position 5, which will be vacated by Councilmember James McMahan at the end of the year.

Primary candidates will deliver a three-minute introduction speech followed by a moderated question and answer session and closing statements.

The primary is scheduled for Aug. 6, with the top-two vote getters moving on to the general election on Nov. 5.

in thought, and all of a sudden, out would come that booklet. He’d adjust his glasses and he’d sit and write for a long time. I never said, ‘What are you writing, Brian?’ But I sure wanted to know.”

Poet Paul Nelson met Love in 1997 at the Spoken Word Lab (SPLAB) on South Division Street. Love volunteered his time to SPLAB for seven years and was a poet in his own right.

“This is unspeakably tragic,” Nelson said. “You couldn’t have asked for someone more supportive, easier to get along with and more willing to do any task, no matter how menial, than Brian Love. … One thing about Brian that stands out is that he never ran anyone down. He never talked trash about anyone.

“Obviously, he was also a guy who preferred being in the background,” Nelson added. “I’ve looked through hundreds of pictures, and I can’t find one with him in it.”

“He was actually the nicest guy you ever met,” said Linda Carson, owner of the Rainbow Cafe. “He was

friendly to everybody and never got angry.”

Combs wants to bury her fiancee but cannot: because she and Love weren’t married, she has no legal rights to claim his body for burial.

What Combs needs is an attorney but she can’t afford to pay for one.

“I’ve been trying to get the legal documents so I can bury him and take care of his truck and his stuff, but the medical examiner won’t release the body. They were going to, until they said they had to check and see if he had any other family elsewhere. I doubt if he does. He never talked about family except for an estranged sister.”

Unless Combs can straighten things out or the medical examiner finds a relative, Love’s body will remain at the Medical Examiner’s Office at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

“I’m not worried about me,” said Combs, “I just want to get him taken care of.”

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never argued with anybody, unless you were wrong. … Everything he did he enjoyed, except not making money. And he was always a people person. We lost an icon of Auburn.”

In his younger days, friends said, Love was a disc jockey and an ice cream salesman, among many other things.

Later he owned Tory’s Pizza at the southeast corner of the now vanished Cavanaugh block at Auburn Avenue and East Main.

Jennifer Campbell, a waitress at the former Rail Tavern across East Main from Tory’s Pizza, called Love “a loving, caring, giving person.”

“He used to emcee the Good Ol’ Days Parade and a lot of other functions to raise money. He emceed the Red Hat Ladies’ show.

When I worked at The Rail, we bought pizzas from him, and they were great pizzas,” Campbell said.

Campbell recalled a quiet side to her friend.

“I remember he kept a spiral notebook in his pocket. He’d be sitting deep

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now, that stayed, they care about Pacific, they obviously love this community. They stayed, they got through it, and whoever becomes the mayor needs to foster those people and those feelings and build on that and bring everybody together. I always joke about just building a fire out in the parking lot and singing “Kumbayah.”

It’s not a reality, but I think about it.”

Guier and Jones weren’t allowed to vote in the mayoral selection process, leaving the selection to the remaining five councilmembers.

Pacific’s new mayor will serve out the remainder of Sun’s term, which expires Dec. 31, 2015.

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CALENDAR Events Auburn Tourism: For special events or to add a special event, go to www.auburntourism.com.

King County Fair: July 11-14, Expo Center, 45224 284th Ave. SE, Enumclaw.

Hours: noon to 9 p.m.; Thursday, noon to 10 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Saturday; noon to 9 p.m. July 14. Admission: $7 for adults (13 & up), $5 for youth (5-12); kids 4 and under are free. Admission includes all shows and concerts. An all-day ride wristband is $27. Advance discounts are available online. For more information, visit thekingcountyfair.com.

Pyung An Presbyterian Church Kids Carnival and Open House: Noon-4 p.m.

July 13, 526 12th St. SE, Auburn. Celebrate the summer and meet members. Free admission. Water slides, dunk tank, Slip ‘N Slide, $1 for teriyaki chicken, hot dogs, ice cream. Kids under 12 must be accompanied by parents or guardians. Information: www. pyungan.org.

Auburn International Farmers Market Opens: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sundays, through Sept. 22, Auburn Sound Transit Plaza, 23 A St. SW. Featuring more than 40 vendors offering a variety of fresh locally grown farm-based foods, hand-crafted items, and concession stands that are restaurant-based but feature a homecooked taste. The Auburn Valley Humane Society will be available to answer questions the public may have concerning pet licenses and services. The market is coordinated by the City of Auburn. It includes free performances, guest chef demonstrations with farm-fresh ingredients, children’s activities, and classes on health, nutrition and gardening. Information: 253-266-2726, www.auburnfarmersmarket.org.

Pacific Days: July 12-14, Third Avenue.

Pacific Partnerships presents. Parades, entertainment, food, vendors. Main events: Grand parade, 10 a.m. Saturday; Pooch Pageant, 2 p.m. Sunday. Information: pacificpartnerships.org.

Latino Community Conversation: 5:30-8 p.m. July 18, Auburn Senior Activity Center, 808 Ninth St. SE. Mayor Pete Lewis and other community leaders discuss public safety, public health and school safety concerns in meeting/open house. Free resources, food, giveaways and activities for children. The forum is being held in partnership with Auburn School District, CDAC Christian Center, Jubilee Center, King County Library – Auburn, King County Public Health, Valley Regional Fire Authority, YMCA and various City departments. For more information, Spanish speakers can contact Rafael Sermeno at 1-510-508-9733 and English speakers can contact Duanna Richards, neighborhood programs manager at (253) 931-3099 or email drichards@ auburnwa.gov.

Merchant’s Market on Main: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 19-21, Main Street, Auburn. Formerly called the Auburn Sidewalk Sale. Hours: 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Friday; 10 a.m.6 p.m. Saturday; 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday.

Algona Days,: 5-9 p.m. July 19; 10 a.m.6 p.m. July 20, Matchett Park, 402 Warde St., Algona. Entertainment, games, arts and craft, food vendors, raffle prizes, parade and games. Cruise In car show runs from 2-6 p.m. Saturday. For more information, call 253-833-2897 or visit www.algonawa.gov.

Auburn Wine Art Music Festival: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. July 20, downtown Auburn.

Auburn Downtown Association, City of Auburn, City of Auburn Arts, Parks and Recreation, and the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce/Tourism present the event.

Merchant Market hosts the event. Specialty vendors, food, music, dance, entertainment, other activities. Wine and beer tasting 2-10 p.m. Information: www.auburndt.org.

Goodguys 26th Wesco Autobody Supply Pacific Northwest Nationals: July 26-28, Washington State Fairgrounds, 110 Ninth Ave. SW, Puyallup. (Enter at Blue, Gold or Red Gate). Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Friday; 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday; 8 a.m.-

3 p.m. Sunday. More than 2,500 hot rods, customs, classics, muscle cars and trucks through 1972; exhibits; swap meet; entertainment, activities for kids. Admission: $8 general admission $18; $6 children 7-12; 6 and under free. Information: 253-841-5045, www.good-guys.com or www.thefair.com.

Bon Odori Festival: 4-9 p.m. July 27, White River Buddhist Temple, 3625 Auburn Way N. Japanese folk dance festival. Dancing, food, Taiko performances, displays. For more information: 253-833-1442, www.

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Auburn Days Community Festival: Aug. 9-11, downtown area, Main Street.

Event highlights: Aug. 9, Stampede 5K Fun Run & BBQ (7 p.m.); all-school class reunion (6 p.m.); community barbecue (6 p.m.); entertainment at City Hall Plaza on Main Street (5:30-11 p.m.); Aug. 10, Auburn Community Art Exhibition at City Hall; grand parade at noon; Auburn Avenue Theater, free matinee/double feature of “Them” (3 p.m.) and “American Graffiti” (5 p.m.); model boat and shipbuilders demonstrations; street dance under the stars with “The Fabulous Murphtones” (6:30-10 p.m.); Aug. 11, Good Ol’ Show & Shine Classic Car Show (9 a.m.-6 p.m.); Adventures in Literature – Poets on Parade Contest; Auburn Collection of Reflections Authors recognition. For a complete schedule and more information: visit www. auburndays.com.

Inaugural EmD3-ON-3: Aug. 10-11, Emerald Downs, 2300 Emerald Downs Drive, Auburn. At least 30 side-by-side halfcourts to be placed in the parking lot north of the grandstand, Open to teams and players of all ages and abilities. Cost per team: $120 with each team guaranteed at least three games. Information: www.emd3on3.com or www.facebook.com/emd3on3

Benefits Car Show 4 Kids: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. July 20, Coastal Farm & Ranch, 1425 Supermall Way, Auburn. Benefits the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation.

Volunteers Soos Creek Botanical Garden: Soos Creek Botanical Garden, 29308 132nd Ave. SE, Auburn. If you love plants, gardens and gardening, the 22-acre garden wants you. Volunteers are asked to dedicate 3-10 hours a week in either garden maintenance, docent tours or marketing. Volunteers need not be master gardeners. Soos Creek Botanical Garden is a nonprofit organization. Information: 253-639-0949, www.

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Network 3 No Networking: 5-7 p.m. Thursdays.

The Urban Center for Innovative Partnerships (IPZ No. 15 Auburn) offers weekly social opportunities designed to cultivate interaction and networking opportunities for Auburn businesses and organizations.

Sessions rotate among four Auburn establishments: • July 11 - Auburn Wine and Caviar Company, 2402 A St. SE; • July 18 - The Station Bistro, 110 2nd St. SW, Auburn; • July 25 - Zola’s Café. 3 No Networking is made possible by a partnership between IPZ No. 15 Auburn, the City of Auburn Office of Economic Development, Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce and the Auburn Downtown Association. For more information, contact Doug Lein, IPZ administrator, at 253-804-3101.

Auburn Area Chamber “Connecting for Success” Breakfast: 8-9 a.m., the first Wednesday of every month. Sponsored by the Auburn Chamber of Commerce. Cost: $5, includes continental breakfast. Auburn Area Chamber Board Room, 108 S. Division, Suite B. 253-833-0700.

Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce Partnership Luncheon: 11:30 a.m.1 p.m., the third Tuesday of every month, Emerald Downs, Emerald Room (fourth floor), 2300 Emerald Downs Drive. Register online through the chamber.

Got an event? submissions@auburn-reporter.com or post online at www.auburn-reporter.com

• July 31: Roving Reptiles - Always a hit with kids, entertainer Clayton Green not only intrigues and educates his audience but also provides a hands-on opportunity at the end of the show;

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• Aug. 7: The Magic of Louie Foxx - An interactive magic show, featuring amazing twists that appeal to kids and the adults who bring them;

Auburn High School Multi-Class Reunion Picnic: 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.

Aug. 3, Veterans Memorial Park, 411 E St. NE, Auburn. Potluck with plates, utensils and napkins furnished. For more information, call 253-880-2500.

Seniors Auburn Senior Activity Center, 808 Ninth St. SE. 253-931-3016 or www. auburnwa.gov. Senior activities include: • Senior Coffee Hours with the Mayor and Councilmembers: 10-11 a.m. the second Thursday of the month.

ELSEWHERE Jazz series:: 6-9 p.m., Saturdays, Auburn Wine and Caviar Company, 2402 A St. SE, Auburn. Saxophone and flute master Mark Lewis performs each week with a different featured guest musician – or two – from around the region. No cover. Featured guest musician schedule: • July 13: Karin Kajita, piano; • July 20: Milo Petersen, guitar; • Aug. 3: John Stowell, guitar. For more information, call 253-887-8530.

Concerts in the Park: 1-3 p.m., July 27, Aug. 24, Matchett Park, 402 Warde St. Algona. The Icicle River Band performs.

AUBURN AVENUE THEATER

“Little Mary Sunshine”: 7 p.m.

Aug. 2-3, 3 p.m. Aug. 3, Performing Arts Building, main campus, Green River Community College, 12401 SE 320th St., Auburn.

Brought to life by Heavier Than Air Family Theatre, “Little Mary Sunshine” is a musical that gently spoofs old-time favorites with lighthearted humor, while showcasing a personality all its own. From Colorado Rangers to the lovely Mary Sunshine; a chorus of giggling schoolgirls to the benevolent Indian chief; hearts are won and lost and won again in this delightful, laugh-filled and charming stage production. A show you won’t want to miss, Little Mary Sunshine features local teens from the company’s popular musical theatre camp.

Tickets $8. Information: 253-833-9111, ext.

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Auburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. Call Auburn Parks, Arts & Rec at 253931-3043, Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.9 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com.

Zola’s Cafe: Live music every Friday, 7-9 p.m., 402 E. Main St., Suite 120. Open mic on the last Wednesday of the month.

For information, contact Sonia Kessler at the cafe at 253-333-9652..

• Lunch: Monday-Friday, Salad bar begins at 11:30, Main meal is served at noon. Cost: $3 donation for ages 60 and over, $6 for those younger than 60.

• Movie Screenings: Wednesdays, 1 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. 50 cent suggested donation for refreshments.

• Monday Supper Club: 4:45-6 p.m.

One Monday a month. Call 253-931-3016 for date and menu. Cost: $6 for all ages.

• Meals on Wheels: Senior services’ program offers home-delivered meals to home-bound seniors. For more information, call the center at 253-931-3016.

Entertainment

Ave Kids: Disney’s Little Mermaid Jr.: 7 p.m. July 12, 13; 2 p.m. July 13-14.

In a magical kingdom fathoms below, the beautiful young mermaid Ariel longs to leave her ocean home to live in the world above. But first, she’ll have to defy her father King Triton, make a deal with the evil sea witch Ursula, and convince Prince Eric that she’s the girl with the enchanting voice.

Adapted from Disney’s 2008 Broadway production, Disney’s Little Mermaid Jr. is performed by participants from the Theater Camp program. Tickets: $6.

KIDS SUMMERSTAGE SERIES The Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation Department presents its eight-weeklong program at Les Gove Park, 910 Ninth St. SE, on Wednesdays at noon.

For more information, call 253-9313043 or visit www.auburnwa.gov/ events. Mixing free entertainment and park activities for kids and adults, the event features kid-friendly artists presenting afternoon concerts, as follows: • July 17: Magician Jeff Evans - A thrilling magic show, sure to captivate the young and the young-at-heart; • July 24: Caspar Babypants - Also known as Chris Ballew of the famous Seattle band, The Presidents of the United States of America, he sings lively, catchy, simple songs that you and your child are sure to love;

“Young Frankenstein”: 6:30-9:30 p.m.

July 16, Auburn Ave Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. Auburn Community Players presents musical. Please show up at 6:30 p.m. Auditioners please come prepared with a resume and a song from musical theater, two minutes maximum in length. Your picture will be taken on site. Bring the sheet music in the correct key. An accompanist is provided.

Invitational callback is 6:30-9:30 p.m.

July 18. The show runs for three weeks – 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4-5, 11-12, 18-19, and 2 p.m. Oct. 6, 13. For any questions, contact Jim Kleinbeck at 253-804-5057 or jkleinbeck@auburnwa.gov. For more information, visit www.facebook.com/ACPlayers

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July 17, 24, 31. Every week there is a new theme with great activities and crafts.

Hooked on History is perfect for kids age 3-12. Free for everyone, no registration required.

Junior Curator Camp: 9 a.m.-noon, July 15-19. One week of fun, hands-on museum activities for kids age 7- 12 that will explore what it takes to be a curator. Kids will investigate artifacts, research collections and create their own exhibit display. Cost: $80 per child. Contact: Rachael Burrum, 253288-7439, rburrum@auburnwa.gov.

MARY OLSON PROGRAMS Located at 28728 Green River Road SE, Auburn. Call 253-288-7433 or visit www.wrvmuseum.org for event information.

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Bring the whole family to see the beautiful landscape, meet animals and tour the fully restored farmhouse. Admission is free.

Veggie Car Races: 1-4 p.m. July 13.

Stop by the farm to build a race car from vegetables and watch as it zooms or putters down an inclined track. Activities and admission free.

Farm Snooze! Family Overnight Program: 4 p.m.-8 a.m. July 20. Pitch a tent and campout under the stars at the farm.

A night of fun farm activities including scavenger hunts, games and a hot dog and marshmallow roast. Cost: $20 per camper, $15 per camper for groups of 4 or more.

Contact: Rachael Burrum, 253-288-7439, rburrum@auburnwa.gov.

Galleries Auburn City Hall: Admission is free.

Hours: 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Fridays.

253-931-3043 or www.auburnwa.gov.

Auburn Valley Creative Arts Gallery: 108 S. Division St., Auburn. Hours: 10 a.m.2 p.m., Wednesday-Friday; noon-4 p.m., Saturday. www.facebook.com/auburnvalleycreativearts. AVCA monthly meetings: 7 p.m., second Tuesday of each month.

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...obituaries Jeremy Lane Belden

Jeremy Lane Belden, age 41, passed away June 28, 2013.

He was a lifelong resident of Auburn, graduating from Auburn High in 1989.

There will be a Celebration of Life, open house, on July 20, from 1-4, at the Game Farm Park, group day camp, in Auburn.

Jeremy is survived by his 3 children, Joshua Thrasher 22, Taylor Belden 19 and Shelbeigh Belden 17. His parents Rex and Linda Belden and his sister Jodi Belden. His grandparents Claude and Dolores Salisbury and AlysMae Belden.

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Helen Babic was born in Renton, Washington on November 21, 1918 to Frank and Frances Babic. She passed away on June 27, 2013.

Helen was raised in South Prairie and graduated from Buckley High School in 1938. She lived and worked in Washington D.C. and then Florida. She worked for the Navy then joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1943. After her military service she worked for the Catholic Church in Seattle and then GSA. She moved to Auburn, WA in 1961 and retired there remaining an active member of her church. Helen enjoying hiking, reading, and travel. She loved her cats.

She is preceded in death by her beloved parents, her sister Mary and her three brothers Joe, Marty and Frank. She is survived by a number of nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews and greatgreat nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held at the Holy Family Catholic Church in Auburn, WA on July 13, 2013 at 11:00 am. Arrangements

by Curnow Funeral Home and Cremation.

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Loren (Larry) Cosme Libadia passed away on July 4, 2013. Larry was 66 years old, born on June 20, 1947.

He was a life-long resident of Auburn and graduated from Auburn High with the Class of 1965.

Larry received his degree in education from Western Washington University and was an elementary school teacher in the Federal Way school district for 30 plus years. Larry loved spending time with his large extended family, teaching and coaching children, watching Mariner games, and camping in his RV. Larry was preceded in death by his father, Cosme Mendoza Libadia.

He is survived by his mother Lorraine Libadia; his brothers Ron (Kelly), Steve (Melanie), Jim (Robyn), and Dennis (Becky) Libadia; and his sister Laurie (Sander) Ansingh. Larry was a favorite and much loved uncle to nieces (Courtney, Lauren, Lindsay,Whitney, Raina & RaeLee) and nephews (Jeremy, Rafe,Tyler, Austin, Isaac, Reid, Cash & Gavin).

A memorial service will be held at First Methodist Church on East Main in Auburn on Monday, July 15 at 11 am. The family requests memorials for Larry to be made as contributions to Seattle Children’s Hospital.

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Mayhem Festival delivers the metal goods to amphitheatre The 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival crashed into Auburn’s White River Amphitheatre on Wednesday, with 18 bands performing on four stages, including main stage acts Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Mastodon and Amon Amarth. Right, a crowd surfer rides in during Children of Bodom’s set.

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Brent Sanders powers through the progressive metal band’s main stage set.

Below middle, Rob Zombie bassist Matt “Piggy D” Montgomery menaces the crowd. Below: Swedish Viking rockers Amon Amarth guitarist Johan Söderberg headbangs next to the band’s firebreathing Viking longship centerpiece.

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