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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2014
Michael Jackson, a former Husky and Seahawk, has joined the team at Auburn Youth Resources. ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter
Jackson tackles new job with AYR BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Nurses Christina Enriques and Hannah Welander participate in a rally to draw public attention to the proposed closure of King County’s Public Health Center in Auburn. ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter
RALLYING TO SAVE PUBLIC HEALTH BY ROBERT WHALE
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If it should happen, said Nadia Bucio, she and other women like her will lose something vital. That dire possibility put Bucio, a mother of four in her mid-30s, out on a sidewalk in the stifling heat of an early August afternoon alongside dozens of other sign
wavers and petition gatherers last Friday, protesting against the potential closure of the King County Public Health Center in Auburn. “I’m out here because they are talking about closing the clinic,” Bucio said, on a patch of green under a tree outside the clinic at 901 Auburn Way North, trying to make her voice heard above the passing cars honking horns
in support. “It’s going to affect a lot of us.” Bucio relies on the services the Auburn clinic offers, such as family planning, the maternity support services program – is a home-visiting and clinic-based program that gives pregnant women and mothers
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Humane society doing more, opens thrift store BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Suddenly in a shaft of sunlight streaming through the doors of Peckenpaugh’s old drug store on M and Morgan East Main, a woman appears. Front to back, east to west, her
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eyes scan the goods, clothes, posters, dishes desks, mirrors and other items, most of the stock donated from Auburn’s garages, basements, backyards and attics. The woman points to an empty corner. “Is there going to be stuff back there?” she asks the owner. “That’s where we are going to
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have vendor booths where people can come and put their own stuff up,” says Phil Morgan, executive director of the Auburn Valley Humane Society – and as of two weeks ago, proprietor of Humane Society Thrift Store and More. The shop is there to fatten AVHS’ revenue stream so that the
When Auburn Youth Resources new development director sticks out a big paw and introduces himself, eyeballs bug out, and heads within earshot snap around, threatening whiplash. “I’m Michael Jackson,” he says. Of course, as those extruded eyeballs realize right away, this guy is not that Michael Jackson. And thank heaven. That’d be, like, super Stephen King creepy. Ah, but wasn’t there once a famous, home-grown Michael
Jackson in these parts? You know, played linebacker for the Washington Huskies? Of course, of course, in the late ’70s and ’80s played for the Seattle Seahawks? Why, indeed there was, and AYR’s new guy is he. Today, however, he’s all about his new gig, which is raising funds so AYR can keep doing the good stuff it does. “Right now, I’m just getting my head around the organization,” Jackson said, “it’s a lot bigger than I thought it was. All the different programs, I’m trying to get an understanding [ more JACKSON page 8 ]
Study: Auburn is No. 8 among most stressful cities in the state FOR THE REPORTER
Behind all those images of coffee shops, the residents of Washington have their fair share of stress. To help find the perfect place to live and work, CreditDonkey. com this week announced the results of a new study that identifies the 10 most stressful cities in Washington. And Auburn made the list – at No. 8. To compile the rankings, the editors at CreditDonkey.com, a credit card comparison and financial education website, [ more STRESSFUL page 3 ]
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