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Festive activities at senior center Swatman Fourth and fifth graders celebrate the season with song Sarah Wehmann Staff Writer
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The Bonney Lake Senior Center welcomed the holiday season with a concert by the Victor Falls Elementary choir on Dec. 12. The choir of 64 fourth and fifth grade students led by Mark Edgbert performed a variety of holiday tunes to a room packed with senior citizens and parents. Along with singing, the choir included dancing to correspond with some of their songs. The Victor Falls choir will return to the senior center in the spring to perform once again. “Mark doesn’t get enough credit for the performance,” Senior Services Manager Sue Hilberg said. “It’s all on him to get all those kids to focus and perform.” The Victor Falls Elementary choir sang holiday favorites at the Bonney Lake Senior Center, Dec. 12 . Pictured left to right, Jase Rothenberger, Alyssa Wolf, Abigail Wood and Lauren Lewis. Photo by Sarah Wehmann See seniors, Page 8
Survivor writes inspirational cookbook Local woman promises proceeds from new book to benefit cancer research By Theresa De Lay Staff Writer
Carol Reed, 67, engaged in
the fight of her life with ovarian cancer. She was blessed to win, she said, and from that journey stemmed a project. “Friends in the Kitchen” is a unique cookbook, inspired by her journey and the friends she met along the way. Carol Reed has lived all over the country. From Virginia to Alaska, her husband’s job in the U.S. Forestry
Service brought her face-to-face with the nation’s wonders. But the Reeds have called the Plateau home for 20 years now. It was three years ago, during an MRI for unrelated back pain, that a tumor on her ovary was accidentally discovered. “If anyone can be considered lucky for getting cancer, it would be me. It was stage one
chosen as deputy mayor Sarah Wehmann Staff Writer
The Bonney Lake City Council held its last scheduled meeting of 2013 on Dec. 10. During the meeting Deputy Mayor Dan Swatman was reselected by the council to continue serving as deputy mayor for another two Dan Swatman years. The role of deputy mayor is ceremonial, Swatman said. It also helps to keep meetings running in the case that the mayor is absent or no longer able to serve, he added. The deputy mayor is also in charge of coordinating activities within the other committees and setting agendas.
See swatman, Page 11 and a huge blessing that I had so many options,” Reed said. “Of course it wasn’t easy but I really didn’t have time to be scared.” At one point, she sustained lifethreatening side effects from chemotherapy and was forced to stop treatment. “Chemo was supposed to be my fail safe, but it turns out my body couldn’t take it. The decision to stop was a terrifying one. I prayed and that next morning, I received a gift in the mail. It was an angel and I took it as a sign that every-
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