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INSIDE | Auburn celebrates its 123rd birthday [11]
FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2014
Inside | Man faces charges in high-speed, dangerous ride [4]
Debate rages over communal housing
STATE TRACK AND FIELD
BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
RAISING THE BAR Auburn Mountainview senior Maddie Taylor captured a share of second place with this leap of 5 feet, 4 inches during the state 3A track and field championships at Mount Tahoma Stadium in Tacoma last weekend. Several Auburn athletes placed at the state showcase. More photos, story, page 13. COURTESY PHOTO, Bob Sheldon
Spiced-up farmers market returns Sunday BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
It boasts more than 40 vendors, from restaurant-based concession stands steeped in home-cooked flavor to stands offering a variety of fresh, locally grown, farm-based foods and hand-made items. What is it? Why, it’s the Auburn International Farmers Market, of course. And at 10 a.m. Sunday, the market pitches boldly into
its sixth year, in the Auburn Sound Transit Plaza at 23 A St. SW. In coordination with the City of Auburn, this year’s market fairly bursts with good stuff, like free performances, chef demonstrations with farm-fresh ingredients, kids activities, and classes on health, nutrition and gardening. And the fun includes another appearance by local [ more MARKET page 3 ]
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Auburn planners say Lea Hill residents Shao Xia Zhu and her husband, Gary Kiefer, should be permitted to lodge up to seven unrelated people in each of the two single-family homes they own in the Rainier Ridge subdivision just north of Green River Community College. But neighbors say anything more than four unrelated people – here, college students – in a communal housing situation would run contrary to what they worked with Galmish City leaders for months to achieve, and what City leaders signed off on when they approved the ordinance last September. At the Zhu-Kiefer hearings at Auburn City Hall on May 28, a room full of riled residents rated the City a fail on its handing of the first applications that have ever been subject to the new rules. “We have worked for two, three years with the City,” said Hank Galmish, an English teacher at GRCC for 25 years, [ more HOUSING page 8 ]
Pacific seeks funds to open, close park BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
The City of Pacific will turn to King County for financial help to annually remove and replace the double rows of flood-control barriers Shoua Lor, who sells flowers and vegetables, is one of the many vendors at the Auburn Farmers Market. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
Sunday
Opening Day this ! Sundays, June 8-September 21 | 10 am-3 pm Sound Transit Plaza, 23 A Street SW www.auburnfarmersmarket.org | 253-266-2726
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See you at the Market