Auburn Reporter, April 04, 2014

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Sports | Auburn Gymnastics teams soar in state competition [17]

Friday, April 4, 2014

City, BNSF officials express concerns over tanker-car loads, safety By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

City leaders across Washington might be forgiven a bit of

nervousness about all those sober black tanker cars that slip through their cities 1-to-1½ times a day along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railroad tracks.

Even if they don’t know exactly what they’re carrying, they know there may be shale oil from the Dakotas inside, or volatile chemicals.

Some of that wariness showed in questions Auburn City Council members lobbed at Johan Hellman, executive general director of State Government Affairs for BNSF, and

company spokesperson Courtney Wallace during a BNSF presentation Monday at City Hall. [ more RAIL page 26 ]

Man sentenced to 5 years for assaulting wife By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

ROBOTICS ROWDIES Members of the Auburn TREAD 3219 FIRST Robotics Team show their spirit at the FIRST Robotics competition this past weekend at Auburn High School. Team 3219 finished 17th out of 36 teams. Issaquah Robotics Society 1318 won the event. TREAD, along

All-school food drive brings in record totals By ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

Auburn has the only school district in the nation that goes all in – wall-to-wall for a food drive. That is, every March, every school does its bit to benefit the [ more DRIVE page 3 ]

more photos online… auburn-reporter.com

with the Auburn Mountainview High School team, compete at the regional competition April 10-12 at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Portland. SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter

VRFA honors its best at annual awards gathering For the Reporter

Terry Robinson and Doug Darmody received top honors at the recent Valley Regional Fire Authority's annual awards presentation at the Truitt Building

Tickets: www.auburnwa.gov/arts | 253-931-3043

in Auburn. Robinson, a firefighter first class medical program specialist, received the 2013 Firefighter of the Year award. Robinson began working with the legacy Auburn Fire Department on Aug. 30, 1999. “Terry has a tireless work ethic and many years of experience that he is willing to share with

On the afternoon of Sept. 30, 2011, Jerold Goodwillie told his wife, Joan, he had met someone else, wouldn’t divorce her because he “wanted the money” and was going to kill her. Then, according to court papers, the 78-yearold man picked up an ax handle, smashed his 67-year-old wife on the head several times, seized a knife she was holding to defend herself and cut her throat. Jerold Goodwillie then pursued his bleeding wife outside to where she’d collapsed on the lawn and stabbed her in the back

three times. While she lay there, he smoked a cigarette and complained she was taking too long to die. On Feb. 27, 2014, Jerold Goodwillie pleaded guilty to one count of attempted assault in the first degree. Last Friday, King County Superior Court Judge William Downing sentenced him to 69.75 months in prison. The top of the sentencing range for the Auburn man was 10 years in prison. “With credit for time served, he’ll serve about two more years,” said Dan Donohoe, a spokesman for the King County Prosecutor. [ more ASSAULT page 4 ]

Terry Robinson, left, received the VRFA’s 2013 Firefighter of the Year award, and Capt. Doug Darmody earned Fire Officer of the Year. COURTESY PHOTO, VRFA

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[ more VRFA page 6 ]

Cab Calloway Orchestra | April 6, 2:30pm | $17/$15, Auburn Performing Arts Center Randy Linder’s CCR Tribute | April 12, 7:30pm | $17/$15, Auburn Avenue Theater Ave Kids: Willy Wonka Jr. | April 18, 7pm; April 19, 2 pm & 7 pm | $8, Auburn Ave. Theater 1010827


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