Enumclaw Courier-Herald, June 25, 2014

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SEE INSIDE: Rich Elfers | Page 6 . . . . Wally’s World | Page 7 . . . Marianne Binetti | Page 8 Check Out Buckley Log Show Pages 11-14

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Marijuana gets Thursday public hearing

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By Kevin Hanson Senior Writer

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Look inside... The town of Buckley comes alive Saturday and Sunday with the excitement of the 2014 Log Show. Things get rolling at 10 a.m. Saturday with the annual parade through downtown and a vendors’ row on River Avenue. Competition runs both days. See pages 11-13.

Weather The forecast for today, Wednesday, calls for showers with a high to 68 and overnight lows to 55. Thursday, the chance of showers continues with highs to 69 and lows to 51. The chance of showers continues Friday and through the weekend with highs to 67 and lows to 53.

Calvary Presbyterian hosts Full Bellies

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f Colleen Michael had her way, no one would go to bed hungry. Such an idealistic goal might be out of reach, but her efforts have assured that disadvantaged residents can look forward to one belly-filling meal each week. Michael, a stay-at-home mother of two, was first drawn to feeding the needy about a year ago. She envisioned something like a weekly soup kitchen, modeled on the existing – and popular – Simply Soup program

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offered at the Enumclaw Senior Center. Looking for advice, Michael reached out to Rene Popke, executive director of the Enumclaw Regional Healthcare Foundation. Popke helped Michael with some early hurdles and eventually provided the biggest boost to the fledgling effort: Michael’s Full Bellies program is now officially under the umbrella of the ERHF, protected by the Foundation’s insurance. A second major hurdle was cleared when Calvary Presbyterian Church agreed to host the weekly Full Bellies gatherings. The weekly meals were first offered in December – with one person attending the inaugural event – but popularity has blossomed. Largely due to word-of-mouth advertising, Michael and a dedicated core group of volunteers are now seeing 60 people show

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Drivers should be prepared for overnight closures of both directions of Griffin Avenue in Enumclaw this week. Contractor crews working for the Washington State Department of Transportation will close the highway to remove old railroad tracks buried under the existing highway, excavate broken concrete panels and grind pavement between Porter and First Streets. The highway was closed Monday. 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., and will continue through the morning of Thursday. Drivers can also expect daily

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Griffin Avenue closures closures in one direction from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Signed detours will be in place to guide drivers around the closures. More than 1.5 miles of Griffin Avenue between High Point Street and state Route 410 is being repaved this summer to preserve and extend the life of the highway. It was last paved in 1998. The $3.2 million project will also improve more than 90 sidewalk ramps and install a new traffic signal at the intersection of SR 410 and Watson Street. Work will be complete by early fall.

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Sophie Ross-Soler works hard Saturday on the way to a second-place finish in the choker setting event for kids in the 7-8 age group. Full results from the Junior Log Show are found on page 12, along with information about this weekend’s Log Show. Photo by Dennis Box.

The city of Enumclaw may be heading toward a total prohibition on all phases of the marijuana trade, both recreational and medicinal. The first step toward the widespread lockdown on legal weed – from production to processing and eventually selling – is to be debated during Thursday night’s meeting of the Enumclaw Planning Commission. That group will be gaveled to order at 7 p.m. in council chambers of Enumclaw City Hall, 1339 Griffin Ave. There will be a public hearing prior to the commission’s vote. The Planning Commission’s verdict serves as a recommendation to the City Council, which wields the ultimate authority. Even though Washington state voters passed Initiative 502, which legalizes private use of marijuana by adults, the state’s attorney general has decreed that

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