Auburn Reporter, July 11, 2014

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CONSTRUCTION SEASON

BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

A crew demolishes the wood shop, horticulture and metal shop classrooms on the west end of the old Auburn High School complex. The rubble is being

removed to make way for parking for the new high school along East Main Street, which is set to open Sept. 3. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

Out with the old, in with the new Crews clear the way for Auburn’s new high school

BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

The unmaking of old Auburn High School is under way. Last week bulldozers began leveling the wood shop, horticulture and metal shop, the classrooms,

on the west end the high school complex, parts of which are 64 years old. “We were originally going to start on demolition today,” Mike Newman, deputy superintendent of the Auburn School District, said Monday, “but we were able to get

tions still cloud the issue, questions about both the sskager@auburn-reporter.com potential benefits and the Like it or not, legal mariheadaches legal marijuana juana is here. retail stores and processing This past Tuesday retail and production busipot stores throughout nesses may bring to their Washington threw open doorsteps. their doors and began Knudtson In Pacific, the City’s doling out the first sacks of administration and council legal smoke since the Marijuana have drawn up an ordinance aimed Tax Act criminalized cannabis in at answering those very questions. 1937. [ more POT page 4 ] For many communities, quesBY SHAWN SKAGER

Mike and Carol O’Neal joins the kids parade at Auburn’s Fourth of July Festival last Friday at Les Gove Park. An Auburn tradition, the festival included fun and games, food and entertainment. More photos, page 11. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

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started last week.” The ideal would be to have the main building down by the end of July, Newman said, but the determining factor will the amount of asbestos that inspection turns up first that must then be abated. [ more HIGH SCHOOL page 3 ]

The young teenage girl and her boyfriend were at the door of the Public Health Center a half-hour before it opened at 8 a.m. on a Monday, Nurse Practitioner Carol Tanaka recounted to the Auburn City Council this week. Tests confirmed the young couple’s fears – the girl was pregnant. Given the beatings she had endured from her parents – the evidence was all over her body – Tanaka decided it would not be safe for her to go home. At that critical moment, Child Protective Services and Auburn Police were tied up. Tanaka got the girl involved with Maternal Support Services, with Women and Infant Child Services and convinced her to wait until more help could arrive. After two more calls, Tanaka said, Auburn Police came, gathered information and agreed it wouldn’t be safe for the girl to return home. It was 3 p.m. before

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