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Maple Lawn Trickor-Treats for UNICEF By Ray Still Staff Writer
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Weather The forecast for today, Wednesday, calls for mostly sunny with a high near 45 and winds of 5 mph. Rain is likely Thursday with a high near 46. Friday calls for a chance of rain. Saturday brings mostly sunny skies with a high near 50. And Sunday looks to be mostly sunny with a high of 51.
Maple Lawn Elementary students did more than just Trick-or-Treat for candy on Halloween; they also raised more than $1,200 for the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund or UNICEF. Ilee Lewis, 9, and her classmates read in a Time for Kid’s article about UNICEF during class last month. Ilee and her classmate Emmett Lettich, 9, did some research on UNICEF and presented their information to their class. “It took off from there,” Jeanne Ossman, Ilee’s teach-
er said. “The third graders ignited the rest of the project. All I did was order the boxes.” Ossman ordered 300 boxes to pass out to the whole school but soon found out 300 boxes were not nearly enough. “We had to use soup cans to collect the rest,” Ossman said, gesturing to an empty, clean soup can with a printed UNICEF label around it. The school’s goal was to raise enough money to install a fresh water pump for a village, which UNICEF reported costs around $500. Instead of one water pump, the school raised enough money to install two and
Plateau vet records time spent in WWII prison camp By Ray Still Staff Writer
“’For God’s sake, grab silk!’” Those are the words Plateau resident Staff Sgt.
Hiram P. Jameyson heard when his B-17 was shot down near Brunswick, Germany, on March 23 1944. Although Jameyson died in 2002, records of his life
the leftover money went to purchase a bike for delivering medication and several hundred vaccines. UNICEF said $10 helps vaccinate 280 during his 15 month of captivity in Germany exist in the form of letters to his wife Lorraine and a daily diary, which he kept hidden from his captors. His letters and a transcribed version of his journal are available at the Enumclaw Historical Museum. The Courier-Herald is presenting his letters and journal entries as a tribute to Veterans Day.
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Hiram Jameyson is inurned at the Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, WA. Photo by Ray Still
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Emmett Lettich, 9, Lily Gwyn, 8, and Ilee Lewis, 9, sort through the last-minute donations Maple Lawn students collected while Trick-or-Treating. The students raised more than $1,200 for UNICEF. Photo by Ray Still
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Jameyson recalled his experience in vivid detail to the Courier-Herald in March 1968. “It all began on our fourth mission,” he recalled. “We were hit with flak on the way to our target and it knocked out one engine. They got us again over the
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children. Ilee raised $112.98 with the help of her family and friends. “I feel good about what I
did,” she said. “I didn’t realize that I could actually help somebody around the world. I didn’t think that could be a possibility.”
Levy fails, fire budget cuts proposed at $3 million By Ray Still Staff Writer
The East Pierce Fire and Rescue Maintenance and Operations Levy failed to reach the supermajority needed to pass in the Nov. 4 general election. As of Monday the Pierce County Auditor’s website had 14,129 voting to approve, 56.24 percent, 10,994, 43.76 percent voted no. This is the second time this year the levy received a majority of yes votes from the public, but not the 60 percent of yes votes necessary to renew the levy. According to East Pierce officials the fire depart-
ment’s budget will shrink by about $3 million, or 14 percent of the overall budget with cuts affecting all of services including alarm response time to station staffing and public education programs. According to Fire and Rescue’s 2013 annual report, total 911 calls to the department have been on the rise since 2009. In 2009, East Pierce Fire and Rescue had more than 7,200 calls. In 2013, the department had more than 8,500. Most of those calls, 74 percent, were for medical emergencies and motor vehicle crashes. Only 4 percent of
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