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Look inside... The community is invited to the following Enumclaw High Homecoming events: • Coronation of royalty begins at 7 p.m. tonight, Wednesday, in the EHS auditorium. • The parade begins at 4 p.m. Friday and runs downtown along Cole Street. • The game begins at 7 Friday night at Pete’s Pool
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Marijuana retailer opens in Buckley By Kevin Hanson Senior Writer
The semi-sleepy burg of Buckley might suffer from a too-quiet downtown, but the community remains a destination for other reasons – most notably, it is home to a National Guard armory and Rainier School. Now, it also is among just a handful of towns where marijuana fans can flock to purchase their drug of choice, whether it be Pineapple Express, Lemon Skunk, Big Bud or any other item off the recreational menu. With last week’s soft opening of Mr. Bills of Buckley, the town of slightly more than 4,000 folks is the only Pierce County community
– other than Tacoma – where marijuana can legally be purchased. Smokers cannot buy legal weed in Pierce County’s second-largest city, Lakewood, or No. 3 Puyallup. Likewise, Buckley’s nearest neighbors have put the kibosh on anyone attempting to ply the marijuana trade made legal via passage of Initiative 502. Just to the north in Enumclaw, the Planning Commission and City Council have recognized that marijuana exists but used zoning codes to prevent the growing, processing or selling of the plant. To the west in Bonney Lake, city leaders maintain a prohibition on any phase of the marijuana trade. Even Buckley isn’t 100 percent on board, maintaining a ban on medicinal marijuana until
governmental entities higher up the chain pull all the rules and regulations into alignment.
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Doug West, the general manager at Mr. Bills of Buckley, has traveled similar turf before. A veteran of the gaming industry, he was around to help wind through the myriad regulations that came with the advent of legalized gambling in the state of Washington; subsequent to that, he managed nontribal casinos in the region. He sees definite parallels to the two efforts – people’s desire to gamble and passage of I-502 that made smoking marijuana legal for those 21
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City may change rules on pit bulls
Weather The forecast calls for today, Wednesday, calls for cloudy skies with a high temperature near 62. Clouds continue tonight with a low of 47. Thursday through Sunday, expect sunny days, with highs reaching 70 by the weekend. Nighttime conditions will include clouds and lows to 50.
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Good day for a run Scattered clouds and the Cascade Range made for a scenic backdrop Thursday afternoon when White River High cross country runners hosted league foes from Steilacoom High. Above, Hornet Brenna Liebel leads the girls race on the White River campus. Photo by Kevin Hanson
Pit bull tails may soon be wagging in Enumclaw, courtesy of the City Council. For nearly a quartercentury, the controversial canine has been banned from the city. But an ordinance now winding its way through City Hall would put an end to the breedspecific prohibition. The council approved the ordinance upon first reading Sept. 22 – with one councilman offering some words of caution – and is expected to issue a final vote during an Oct. 13 session. The 1980s and 1990s
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