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Friday, January 31, 2014
New high school right on course By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
The new Auburn High School is about 42 percent complete. As district officials told the school board Monday night, rooms are being painted, cabinets are in the walls in some classrooms, kitchen equip-
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ment is in and there’s even a quarry tile floor down in the kitchen area. The next milestone to look for — the red brick exterior.
“The brick is starting to go up on the south side of the building, the Main Street side, and they’re making great progress on that,” said Deputy Superintendent Mike Newman. “It’s going to be exciting to see that white mass now turn into the classic brick.” [ more PROJECT page 8 ]
Passing it on: Victoria Knight, Miss Auburn 2013, crowns Jacque Guyette, the new Miss Auburn, after last Saturday night’s finals. rachel ciampi,
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Guyette captures Miss Auburn crown BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
Off to the big game: from left, Jacqueline, Laura, Zoe and Geraldine are four Sea Gals from the Kent and Auburn area ready to cheer on the Seahawks from the sideline at Super Bowl XLVIII in East Rutherford, N.J., on Sunday. ROSS COYLE, Kent Reporter
LOCAL SEA GALS SUPER BOWL BOUND By Steve Hunter shunter@kentreporter.com
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he emotions of 33 women with a close-up view of the Seattle Seahawks couldn’t help but explode when they saw the play that saved the NFC Championship game against the San Francisco 49ers. “That last play when Richard Sherman tipped the ball, that was the moment when all of the Sea Gals looked at each other and starting tearing and crying, and
we were like ‘this is happening, we’re going to the Super Bowl,’” says Jacqueline, a 2012 Kentridge High School graduate and one of 33 members of the Seahawks NFL cheerleading squad. “I looked in the eyes of our fans and saw their faces all lit up, and that just set my heart on fire,” says Geraldine, a 2007 Kentwood graduate, about the tip heard
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around the world. The Sea Gals, including four women who graduated from Kentridge, Kentwood or
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Michael Powers | January 31, 7:30 p.m. | $17/$15, Auburn Ave. Theater Cirque Ziva: Chinese Acrobats | February 1, 7:30 p.m. | $20/$18, Auburn PAC Heartless | February 8, 7:30 p.m. | $20/$18, Auburn Ave. Theater 953309
Poised and polished, Jacque Guyette returned to the bright stage to succeed where she twice had stumbled. This time would be different for the 22-year-old Auburn woman. Impressing the judges and wowing the audience, Guyette performed flawlessly to capture the Miss Auburn crown at the Auburn
Pacific considers interim ban on marijuana businesses BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
The Pacific City Council set the wheels in motion this week on an interim ordinance to prohibit the
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Performing Arts Center last Saturday night. “I’m overwhelmed, ecstatic,” Guyette said moments after accepting the tiara, flowers and a flood of hugs and congratulations from contestants, family and friends. “I’m very surprised. I am thrilled. [ more MISS AUBURN page 14 ]
establishment of medical or recreational marijuana businesses in the city for at least the next six months. Interim zoning Ordinance 14-1855 would block any businesses dealing with the “production, processing, cultivation, storage, sale, [ more PACIFIC page 7 ]
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