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Father of murdered son files civil suit BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Aishah Mohamed, of Kent, right, learns how to set up a delivery table from surgical technician Angela Bernal in a birth
center suite at Auburn MultiCare Medial Center during Nurse Camp last week. COURTESY PHOTO, Patrick Hagerty, MultiCare
Learning, experiencing the real deal Local teens get hands-on lessons at Nurse Camp BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
Aishah Mohamed appeared pale and somewhat shaken, watching a baby being born at MultiCare Auburn Medical Center last week. The career-conscious teen did
not understand at first the intense moment was part of participating in the MultiCare Health System’s Nurse Camp. This was no training film, she recognized, it was the real deal. “It was scary, it was freaky,” Mohamed said of her experience in one of the center’s dozen birth center suites. “It was a boy … he was so cute.” Mohamed, a junior-to-be at Kentwood High School, was one of more than 100 high school students from
the South Puget Sound area who got a hands-on look at nursing careers during MultiCare’s five-day camp last week. At Nurse Camp, students tried out medical devices, performed “Skittlectomies” on mannequins, practiced suturing on pig kidneys and followed professional nurses and other health care professionals in various departments at MultiCare’s [ more CAMP page 8 ]
Pacific considers outright ban of medical, recreational pot business BY SHAWN SKAGER sskager@auburn-reporter.com
The Pacific City Council voted on Monday to move a trio of ordinances intended to govern medical and recreational marijuana business
in the city on to the planning commission for review. In a surprise move, the council forwarded to the commission an ordinance that would ban all retail, processing and [ more PACIFIC page 4 ]
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In 2010 James Mills was convicted as a juvenile of second-degree assault and second-degree robbery. The trial judge then placed the Kent youth under the supervision of the Juvenile Justice and Rehabilitation Administration, part of the Department of Social and Health Services, which despite his frequent violations of the conditions of his parole, allowed him to be free. A year later, on May 22 2011, Mills shot and killed 16-year-old Adrian Wilson and wounded another youth at a backyard barbecue at the Aspen Meadows Apartments
in Auburn. So say Gabriel Wilson, father of the dead boy, and the family of another young man wounded in the same shooting. They have filed a civil suit against the state of Washington, claiming that it should have done more to stop Mills. Their attorney, James Bible, wrote in the lawsuit filed in King County Superior Court, that the Juvenile Justice and Rehabilitation Administration was responsible for “the wrongful death of Adrian Wilson because it failed to adequately supervise James Mills,” during [ more SUIT page 8 ]
Reports: Phony Navy SEAL buried with military honors BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Shortly after 1 p.m. on a gray, misty afternoon, a clutch of motorcycles driven by members of American Legion Post 78, until that point behind a police escort, roared through the gates of Tahoma National Military Cemetery in Covington. Moments later the bikes
banked onto a side road, where flagpole-holding veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces were waiting. On the back of one cycle was a green box topped by a plaque. Inside, the ashes of John Marcus Alberti, by all accounts, a Navy veteran. Alberti, a Native American, [ more ALBERTI page 10 ]
Spirit of O-Bon Okinawan Kenjin-Kai Eisa Taiko Drum group performs in the 50th Bon Odori Festival at the White River Buddhist Temple last Saturday. The festival celebrates the mid-summer holiday of Obon, a time for Buddhists to honor their ancestors and Japanese heritage with a day of dancing, drumming and feasting. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
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spend at least $10 with market vendors and then visit the Market Info. Booth to pick up a free mason jar tumbler