Auburn Reporter, February 07, 2014

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INSIDE | City examines downtown parking dilemma [9]

Friday, February 7, 2014

Sports | Auburn Mountainview cheer team soars to nationals [16]

Community center draws closer to reality July 7 is target date to begin construction By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

This is the year that the Auburn Community Center in Les Gove Park starts to be a concrete, wood, stone and glass reality. That is the expectation voiced Monday night by City Council-

man Rich Wagner, the man who knows most about the longenvisioned community gathering spot. “The target date for construction to start is July 7 … And if we are able to start then, it would be completed in May of 2015,” said Wagner, chair of the Les Gove Community Campus Committee and the center’s unstinting champion for the last five years. The City put the $12 million

project out to bid four years ago, shelved it when the economy hit the skids and is taking it down. From then to now, Wagner said, not much has changed respecting the design and drawings: plans still call for a one-story, 20,100-square-foot building where the YMCA building once stood adjacent to the park, to include: [ more CENTER page 7 ]

Long-awaited facility: A $12 million, 20,100-square-foot community center is planned for the Les Gove Park campus. COURTESY RENDERING, BLRB Architects

Kukors gets the call for Olympics

SUPER BOWL APPEAL

By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

Jen Nikolaisen, an Auburn High School graduate, joined actor John Stamos in a provocative Dannon Oikos Yogurt ad that aired during Sunday’s Super Bowl. “It was a pleasure to book it, to

shoot it, and the fact that it’s getting so much hype and buzz is incredible.” Nikolaisen said of the 30-second spot. “Mostly, I’m excited that I’m in this Super Bowl.” courtesy photo, Barry Berona

AUBURN ACTRESS GETS SUPER ‘SHOT’ For Nikolaisen, By ROBERT WHALE a Seahawks fan, rwhale@auburn-reporter.com TV commercial Even before the Dannon Oikos Yogurt exceeded ad aired on Super Bowl Sunday, it had ‘my wildest already gone viral, racking up more than two million likes. expectations’ Its highlight, a beautiful young woman

wiping surplus yogurt from John Stamos’ lips, and well, being a bit suggestive when the stuff goes astray. Auburnites, take a close look – the woman is Auburn High School graduate Jen Nikolaisen.

bravo [ more COMMERCIAL page 8 ]

Heartless | February 8, 7:30 p.m. | $20/$18, Auburn Ave. Theater AveOlympic Movie: Cool Runnings (PG) | February 9, 2 p.m. | Free, Auburn Ave. Theater Chocolate Confessions | February 14, 7:30 p.m. | $17/$15, Auburn Ave. Theater 953313

ON TV: Winter Olympics opening ceremony, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Channel 5

Retired Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors returns to the Olympic team. stage Friday. “I’m so excited Rather than to be a part of that competing, howteam. I have my ever, Kukors – an yellow jacket and Auburn native who everything,” she swam in the 2012 said. Summer Olympics Kukors, who in London and Kukors hung up her swim holds the world recap last year, spends cord in the 200-meter individual medley – will her time nowadays inspirattend the Winter Olympics ing in Sochi, Russia as part of [ more KUKORS page 8 ] the KING-5 news coverage

Pacific passes ordinance halting pot businesses By SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com

The Pacific City Council voted 6-0 to pass an interim zoning ordinance that will block the licens-

ing of any businesses seeking to produce, process or sell medical or recreational marijuana in the city for the next six months. At a special meeting following the regularly scheduled workshop on Monday, the council heard public input on interim [ more BAN page 9 ]

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