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Group crusades for a cleaner planet BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
Brian Gunn and Dan Carpita are busy spreading the word. Climate change is real, they say, and unless Americans commit
to finding alternatives to fossil fuel-based energy, the environmental cost will continue to be felt worldwide. Gunn and Carpita are Auburn residents, activists, founders of
the local NoKXL Pipeline – part of a national crusade urging President Obama and his administration to reject the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. [ more PIPELINE page 7 ]
City weighs pot businesses BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
By November or December of this year, James Blankenship should know whether he can open his recreational marijuana business, The Stash Box, in Auburn. And, if so, under what conditions. That’s when the Auburn City Council is expected to decide between: saying no outright to all recreational-marijuana
businesses within its boundaries; allowing them in under current state regulations with no additional city rules; or green lighting them only after adding City regulations to the rules the state already has in place. He preferred the second option. “I don’t think (prohibition) would help, because the law itself was to get the black market out of here,” Blankenship said. [ more MARIJUANA page 3 ]
Woman who sparked Amber Alert pleads innocent to kidnapping son BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Trip with Tex
Prosecutors claim that Sandra Bennatts ransacked her mother’s Auburn home at knife point, hog tied her, took her credit cards and car, then kidnapped her own 6-year-old autistic son and drove off with him. Bennatts’ actions, prosecutors say, prompted an Amber Alert,
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Emmy Delight, 2, and her mom, Denise, ride Tex the camel during the seventh annual Petpalooza at Game Farm Park last Saturday. Stan Straub guides the camel. The all-day, pet lovers’ festival including a fun run, parade, rides, contests, entertainment, vendors and demonstrations. For fun run and pet contest winners, see page 4. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
a police chase that reached 100plus miles her hour, and a flight that ended only with her capture in Chelan County when she ran out of gas. On Tuesday morning, Bennatts, 34, pleaded innocent to kidnapping in the first degreedomestic violence, first-degree burglary-domestic violence, and [ more KIDNAPPING page 7 ]
MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
FULFILLING HIS DUTY ON HOSTILE SEAS
Don Hanson sailed many seas during World War II aboard the USS Idaho, a formidable battleship. MARK KLAAS,
Local man looks back on eventful, fortuitous career in the Navy BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
Far off though he was, the young sailor witnessed the ebb and flow of monumental, bloody battles, as American
amphibious forces landed on enemy-occupied islands in the Pacific theater of World War II. Saw a gravely wounded Pearl Harbor stagger to its feet in the aftermath of Imperial Japan’s surprise attack. Walked the
streets of Nagasaki, flattened only months before by an atomic bomb. Don Hanson saw many things in his swift, eventful, unforgettable five years aboard [ more HANSON page 8 ]
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