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Weather The forecast calls for sunny skies today, Wednesday, with a high temperature near 80 degrees. Thursday could see the daytime high exceeding 80. Friday should be sunny but not as warm – highs of perhaps 73 – and the weekend calls for mostly cloudy skies with a chance of rain showers.
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Preparing for the worst
White River’s Cody Schwab is carried out by a Pierce County deputy during the active shooter drill at White River High School Thursday. Photo by Kevin Hanson
Two former students, perhaps emotionally unstable, enter a school building. Words are exchanged with frontoffice staff and, moments later, screams are heard as shots ring out. In short order, classroom doors are slammed shut and locked, medical help is called for and local police speed to the scene. Within minutes, special teams of highly-trained law enforcement officers come together, ready to handle the grisly scene of a school shooting. Such incidents can seemingly occur anywhere – a fact painfully clear to residents of small towns like Columbine, Colo., and Newtown, Conn. It could even occur in a quiet, rural setting like that of White River High School. With that in mind, more than 230 emergency responders headed to bucolic Buckley Thursday morning for an “active shooter” exercise that was more
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Bonney Lake High to host third fitness fest Sarah Wehmann Staff Writer
It is beginning to feel more like summer as we see a rise in temperatures around the Pacific Northwest. On May 3 you can “Spring Into Summer” at the third annual Family Fitness Fest held at Bonney
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Lake High School from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m. The Sumner School District, the city of Bonney Lake and the Bonney Lake Chamber of Commerce are joining forces again to bring awareness to the community regarding health. This fest began as a way to meet community requirements for the federal grant the Sumner
School District received in 2011, Loren Willson, Secondary Curriculum and Professional Development for the district said. The idea behind the grant was to improve physical education to combat childhood obesity. This year’s theme “Spring Into Summer” is meant to encourage families to develop a regular plan of physi-
Deadline: May 13, Published: May 28
cal activity starting now and going through summer until school starts again in the fall, Willson said. At the fest, there will be demonstrations, safety displays, fitness activities and informational tables hosted by local health service providers, he added. Some of the providers that will be in attendance are the Sumner-Bonney Lake
Recreation Department, the Washington State University Extension gardening program, the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Walmart vision screening and the YMCA. The event is free and open to the public, Gary Leaf, Facilities and Special Projects Manager for the City of Bonney Lake said.
Deadline: June 3, Published: June 25
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