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Friday, March 7, 2014
Community center plans put on hold By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Everybody agreed Monday night that Auburn should have a community center. For educational, cultural, recre-
ation and social activities and large community and trade events. Also, to answer a significant need for the southeast King County area, where there are no multi-service, community gathering spaces. Some day, that is.
But by a vote of 5 to 2, the Auburn City Council decided that now is not the time to advertise for bids to build the multi-million dollar structure long planned for the southeast corner of the Les Gove Community Campus.
Councilmembers Largo Wales and Rich Wagner, the latter chair of the Les Gove Community Campus Committee and the center’s biggest proponent, voted yes. [ more CENTER page 2 ]
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Man sentenced to 19 years for stabbing death By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Bradley Courville grew up with his cousin, Quinn Oliver, on the Muckleshoot Reservation. The two were tight as brothers. But riding a sleepless nine-day, methamphetamine-induced high, hearing voices, seeing what wasn’t there, Courville stabbed his 26-year-old cousin to death in the early morning hours of Dec. 24, 2012. At the time Courville told officers he had killed Oliver because his cousin
SIGHTS, SOUNDS OF MEXICO Edwin Chavez and Marlene Cipriano dance during the La Banda Gozona: The Music of Oaxaca, a special concert at the Auburn Library last Sunday. La Banda Gozona, a group of Seattle-area
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musicians that plays the traditional music of Oaxaca, Mexico presented the concert with special guest dancers Grupo Cultural Oaxaqueno. More photos, page 12. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
GRCC flight students take off with pilot degree program BY ROSS COYLE rcoyle@kentreporter.com
When David Watson’s and Michael Peterson’s stomachs start to growl during their classes at Green River Com-
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had called him a name. But at his sentencing for second-degree murder in Judge Leroy McCullough’s courtroom at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent on Friday, Courville said, with the clarity offered by two years of newfound sobriety, he really does not know why. “I just want to tell this family that I am deeply sorry. … I didn’t mean to do it, and I still don’t know why I did it. I was really high, and I don’t know why I did it” said Courville. [ more MURDER page 4 ]
munity College, they include Bainbridge Island, Yakima, even Portland, Ore., among the possible locales for a lunch break. Something, the men say, within “a reasonable distance.” See, to Watson, Peterson and the other GRCC flight [ more PILOTS page 8 ]
Buddy Holly & Friends | March 7 & 8, 7:30 p.m. & March 9, 2 p.m. | $17/$15, Auburn Ave. Theater Jet City Improv | March 21, 7:30 p.m. | $17/$15, Auburn Ave. Theater Ave Kids: Dan Zanes & Elizabeth Mitchell | March 22, 3 p.m. | $10, Auburn Performing Arts Center 953315