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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2014
Vol. CXXIII, No. 241
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY OF TACOMA Devoted to the Courts, Real Estate, Finance, Industrial Activities, and Publication of Legal Notices
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Pierce County News
Pierce County to honor outgoing Councilmember Flemming Pierce County Councilmembers will recognize outgoing Councilmember Stan Flemming (pictured) for his years of public service during the final 2014 meeting of Pierce County Council. Councilmember Flemming was elected to Pierce County Council in 2010, ran for re-election this year, but lost to former Gig Harbor City Councilmember Derek M. Young. Councilmember Flemming, a medical doctor and retired U.S. Army brigadier general, serves as Pierce County Council's vice chair. He previously served the community as a member of the Washington House of Representatives and a founding councilmember and mayor of the City of University Place. This week, councilmembers will present Councilmember Flemming with a plaque honoring his public service. Pierce County employees and members of the public are invited to attend the event, which will be held on Tues., Dec. 16, at 3 p.m., in Pierce County Council Chambers, located in the County-City Building, 930 Tacoma Ave. S., 10th Floor, in Tacoma. Pierce County to privately distribute unclaimed ashes at sea Due to an excess of cremated remains, the Pierce County Medical Examiner will scatter the unclaimed ashes of deceased individuals at sea on Thurs., Dec. 18. "Many of these cases go back decades and by law we have to do everything we can to try and find the next of kin," said Dr. Thomas Clark, who has served as Pierce County's medical examiner since 2010. "However, many of the leads have been completely exhausted and either no friends or relatives can be found or are they not interested in claiming the remains. We're left storing them indefinitely and that practice has become unsustainable." The Medical Examiner's office has arranged to use the Pierce County Sheriff's patrol boat to carry the cremated remains of 23 people to an undisclosed location on the waters of Puget Sound. By law, the ashes must
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Merger expands downtown Tacoma's Chuckals Office Products Chuckals Office Products, a business-tobusiness office supply company that has been in downtown Tacoma for 20 years, announced Tuesday it will expand its operations by merging with Silverdale, Wash.-based Speed's Stationers. According to Chuckals Office Products president Al Lynden, the company will retain Speed's Stationers warehouse in Silverdale as a distribution center and has plans to support it with a local Kitsap County account manager. Lee Speed, founder and current president of Speed's Stationers, is retiring after over 45 years in the office supply industry. "We're delighted to welcome Speed's customers to the Chuckals family," said Lynden. "Chuckals and Speed's share a common culture based on long-term business relationships with our customers, and we are looking forward to the opportunity to bring the superior customer service and value that have been the hallmarks of Chuckals for over 20 years to our new customers in Kitsap County." To read the Tacoma Daily Index's complete and comprehensive coverage of Chuckals Office Products, visit our Web site for the following articles: — Former McKinley Hill Tacoma police station for sale again (Tacoma Daily Index, May 6, 2014) — Tacoma City Council OKs plan to sell former Mckinley Hill police station (Tacoma Daily
Index, Oct. 30, 2013) — Decision ahead on former McKinley Hill police station property sale (Tacoma Daily Index, Oct. 28, 2013) — Downtown Tacoma's Chuckals Office Products considers move to McKinley Hill Business District (Tacoma Daily Index, Oct. 21, 2013) — Tacoma's Chuckals Office Products charity golf tournament raises $20K (Tacoma Daily Index, Aug. 19, 2013) — Downtown Tacoma's Chuckals Office Products extends GSA contract (Tacoma Daily Index, March 27, 2013) — Downtown Tacoma's Chuckals, Pierce County partner for office supply needs (Tacoma Daily Index, Jan. 31, 2011) — Achievements, support highlight Goodwill breakfast (Tacoma Daily Index, May 5, 2004) — Chuckals selected for Army's Blanket Purchase Agreement (Tacoma Daily Index, May 4, 2004) — Stroud Auto Center, Chuckals Office Products up for regional Better Business Bureau award (Tacoma Daily Index, Jan. 22, 2002) — Chuckals holiday toy drive under way (Tacoma Daily Index, Nov. 21, 2001) — Chuckals Office Products asking community to help with toys for children (Tacoma Daily Index, Nov. 29, 2000)
be scattered within three miles of the state's shoreline. Clark's office has employed chaplains Larry and Dianne Huffman of West Pierce Fire & Rescue to say a few words, after which the names of each individual will be read aloud before the ashes are scattered. "We deal with death every day in our office, and always in the most respectful and professional manner," Clark said. "Regardless of the circumstances, it's our duty to ensure that — as fellow human beings — they are treated with dignity." Among those whose ashes are being scattered are
several whose remains were found in newly-purchased and rented homes, on the steps of a church, on a stranger's porch, in the back of a pickup truck, on the side of the road, and in a store parking lot. The medical examiner's office has listed the names or details of each individual whose ashes will be scattered online at piercecountywa.org/medicalexaminer. Any individuals who are confirmed by the Medical Examiner's office to be U.S. military veterans are entitled to interment in a veteran's cemetery, and such arrangements are made.