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City opts for study sessions BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
If you want to know where things are at with the planning process for Les Gove Park, how Auburn spends its dollars, what it is doing about its streets or a myriad of other matters,
up to now all you’ve had to do was sit in on one of the twice-monthly City Council subcommittee meetings. There you’d hear small groupings of Auburn’s elected leaders – three councilmembers and often the may-
or – hash out issues with City staff, weeks or even months in advance of any Council vote. For more than 40 years, such has been the order of things at City Hall, the way ordinances and resolutions [ more SESSIONS page 7 ]
Auburn’s Gaylyn Shoemaker comes dressed for the opportunity to spread her brand of good humor to the people she touches. ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter
‘Jollyologist’ on call to heal Woman’s dose of humor is good medicine to many BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
DAY OF HONOR Navy veterans with the USS Bonefish submarine greet the crowd during the 49th annual Veterans Day Parade in downtown Auburn last Saturday. The mile-long parade, one of the largest
Demolition begins, making way for retirement center
of its kind west of the Mississippi, featured more than 200 entries and nearly 6,000 participants. More photos, page 10. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Fencing is up around the Gambini block, heavy equipment has rolled in, and the block’s owner began tearing
things down this week. Teutsch Partners LLC, the Seattle-based real estate development firm that owns the block off South Division between First and Second streets southeast – also called the Chamber of
Big, goofy pink glasses above a bulbous red nose, stethoscope a-gleam against a white smock, google-eyed frogs grinning from a cloth hat. Thus tricked out, or in another of the many variations of her costume, Auburn’s one-and-only “jollyologist”, Dr. Gaylyn Shoemaker, sets out three days each week for local nursing homes, hospitals Commerce block – has filed plans with the City of Auburn to build a four-story retirement community in its place, offering 111 assisted-living and 16 memory-care apartments. Its 168,331 square feet of space
35th Annual Seattle Int'l Comedy Competition | Nov. 14, 7:30 pm | $20/$18 | Auburn Ave. Theater Petty Fever: Tom Petty Tribute | Nov. 15, 7:30 pm | $20/$18 | Auburn Ave. www.auburnwa.gov/arts | 253-931-3043 AveKids: Doktor Kaboom The Science of Santa | Dec. 6, 1 pm | $8 | Auburn Ave. Theater 1158113
and convalescent centers, seeking souls inside that could use a heaping helping of the smile-inducing stuff she carries. From deep pockets she produces jelly-bean and Smartie-filled bottles, pasted over with quirky prescriptions like: “For a good dose of jocularity, take a jolly bean and call me in the morning,” and, “By Golly Be Jolly.” For anybody having a bad day, she’s got bubble wrap, with the following instructions: “Pop one bubble every four to six hours, call physician if symptoms persist.” [ more JOLLYOLOGIST page 6 ]
will be divided between the below-grade parking level and three stories of memory-care units above ground, a mixture of one-bedroom, one-bath studio [ more DEMO page 7 ]