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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2014
City working to save health clinic BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
King County spends about $9 million on a two-year budget cycle to keep the Auburn Public Health Clinic open. But with its efforts hobbled by a $2 million biennial shortfall tied to its
lease arrangement for the building, and a concomitant decrease in state and federal funding, county officials say, by Dec. 31, 2014 the clinic will close. That would leave the 11,000 people in its service area of Auburn, Algona, Pacific, Black Diamond and Enumclaw who rely on its services
adrift. A lot of people find that unconscionable and have been working hard to ensure that the clinic stays open. This week, positive news. “They worked a few numbers that reduced the deficit the county [ more CLINIC page 8 ]
Recipe for learning: Maria prepares banana bread batter to be baked in the TAP building’s kitchen. ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter
Program TAPs into the possibilities Students with disabilities learn valuable skills for the working world BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Spatula firmly in hand, head of brown hair bobbing over a mixing bowl, 19-year-old Maria is all concentration, smiles – and that special form eagerness takes whenever a young body is whipping up a goodie. Special education para-educator Jaime Billingsley asks Marie to step aside so Skyler, 18, can “have his turn” at speeding this mouth-watering batch of banana bread on to its fated hour with the oven. As Maria and Skyler work in the kitchen, and a meeting for parents rolls on in an adjoining room, a young man, Jacob, flips through vocabulary cards,
WELCOME HOME Danny Shelton, the University of Washington’s standout defensive lineman, signs autographs for students at Washington Elementary School, his old school. Shelton, a 2011 Auburn High School graduate, came home to visit friends and former teachers and to talk to students about making good choices and overcoming obstacles in life. Story, page 14. SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter
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City looks to hire firm to design teen and community center BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
The Auburn City Council on Monday gave Mayor Nancy
Backus the go-ahead to negotiate the hiring of Seattle-based ARC Architects to provide design and construction services for the youth center and the community
center proposed for the north end of the Les Gove Park campus. Stan Lokting, ARC principal, told the Council that his 38-yearold firm has worked on a number
of community center projects over the years, among them the Rosehill Community Center in Mukilteo and the Rainier Beach Community Center and pools
in Seattle. He noted that his firm “helped program the original youth center-community center” [ more CENTER page 3 ]
Auburn Community Players presents The Sound of Music
October 10, 11, 17 & 18 at 7:30 pm | October 12 & 19 at 2 pm 1135965
$15/$13 (pre-sale); $20/$18 at the door | Auburn Ave. Theater Tickets: www.auburnwa.gov/arts | 253-931-3043