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INSIDE | Man pleads not guilty to vehicular homicide [4] Roads | Crews to close eastbound Highway 18 to replace pavement this weekend [3]
Sports | Pegram comes home, takes helm of Ravens girls basketball program [12]
Friday, JUly 26, 2013
Key races up for grabs in primary Reporter staff
Auburn voters will decide who gets to stay in the hunt for mayor and a seat on the City Council when they cast their ballots in the Aug. 6 primary election. Voters will determine which two candidates from three will advance to the Nov. 5 general election. City Councilmember and Deputy Mayor Nancy Backus, Councilmember John Partridge and Iraq war veteran Scot Pondelick are vying for mayor.
Sharnpreet Tung of Auburn Mountainview practices laparoscopic surgery during a ‘Skittle-ectomy’ at the MultiCare Nurse Camp last week. Mary Walls, a nurse in the MultiCare Tacoma General Hospital operating room, provides instruction. COURTESY PHOTO, Patrick Hagerty
STUDENTS APPLY SKILL, TOUCH MultiCare Nurse Camp offers hands-on lessons in specialized health care BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
Mariah McHenry appreciates good, friendly care on her frequent visits to the hospital.
Which way to the mall? Streets to be renamed
“I go to the clinic across the street,” said McHenry, pausing to talk last Friday during a classroom lesson at the MultiCare Nurse Camp at Tacoma General Hospital. “They are always so kind, and so I always wanted to be a nurse.” Doctors are treating the Auburn Mountainview High
School student for aplastic anemia, a rare blood disease. McHenry says she feels fine now. On the cusp of her senior year, her prognosis is good. Soon McHenry will turn her attention back to that day’s lesson – learning to suture pigs feet.
[ more CAMP page 8 ]
INSIDE: The Outlet Collection announces new tenants, grand unveiling this fall, page 9
By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Along with changing the name of the SuperMall to The Outlet Collection|Seattle, Glimcher Realty Trust recently got the go ahead from the City Council to rename the surrounding streets. That means Supermall Way Southwest will change to Outlet
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Collection Way SW, Supermall Drive Southwest to Outlet Collection Drive SW, and Supermall Access Road to Outlet Collection Access Road. Work had been expected to start Aug. 1, but Glimcher and the Washington State Department [ more STREETS page 8 ]
Pete Lewis has decided not to pursue a fourth term in office. In the primary for Auburn City Council Position 4, Auburn voters will choose two among the field of Frank Lonergan, Thomas Sauers and Yolanda Trout. This is an open position now held by Backus. On page 7 of this issue, the Auburn Reporter presents profiles based on information received in questionnaires emailed to each mayoral candidate.
Long-awaited M Street SE underpass opens to traffic BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
After plenty of speechmaking offered up by dignitaries under clear skies at the intersection of 4th Street Southeast and M Street Southeast Monday afternoon, Auburn City Councilmembers and other leaders piled into a Pirsch antique fire engine.
The engine pushed through a red ribbon, and Auburn’s M Street Southeast underpass was open. It all happened before a perspiring but happy crowd of more than 100, and under the eyes of the workers who built it, a clutch of them watching from the top of the underpass. [ more PROJECT page 10 ]
Not exactly a Tonka Ed Solak talks to David Mitchell, 3, as he explores a Class B truck and blows the horn. Kids got up close and personal with heavy machinery at The Touch A Truck event at the Auburn Valley Y last Saturday. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
Sunday
Celebrating Kids this ! Sunday market through Sept. 22 | 10 am-3pm Sound Transit Plaza, 23 A Street SW www.auburnfarmersmarket.org | 253-266-2726
kids day at the market Sunday, July 28