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$800K in scholarships, so far Free 9 schools have made offers to Chloe Cook, who expects she’ll still need a job coffee signs return After they broke down last year, the state initially refused to replace them, costing nonprofit and service groups needed donations. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
GENNA MARTIN / THE HERALD
Monroe High School student Chloe Cook helps third-grader Oleah Roll during class Wednesday. Cook volunteers every day after school at Frank Wagner Elementary in Monroe, helping kids with homework and class projects.
By Amy Nile Herald Writer
MONROE — She’s received college scholarship offers worth close to a million dollars, and there are likely to be more. Chloe Cook, a senior at Monroe High School, applied to 17 private colleges and universities. So far, nine schools have responded, each offering her merit scholarships that range from $76,000 to $112,000. Chloe, 17, was counting on
narrowing her college choices depending on which schools offered her money. But with so many offers, that choice will be harder than she expected. Chloe’s mother, Cindy Cook, of Maltby, said a scholarship can make a private institution as affordable as a public university. “That’s the dirty little secret,” Cindy Cook said. But even with a scholarship, Chloe expects to pay for about half of the cost of her education out of pocket. The cost of her
chosen private universities start at $45,000 a year, so she’s counting on money from family and a job on campus to pay the difference. She hopes she won’t have to take out student loans. Her father, Paul Cook, is a financial adviser. And after this experience, making college more affordable for everyone is one of Chloe’s career goals. Chloe has been volunteering at Frank Wagner Elementary School for the past three years.
She spends afternoons helping in third-grade classrooms. She reads with students and helps them with homework and art projects. Chloe had wanted to become a teacher. But after volunteering, she has decided she would like to reform the whole public school system. She plans to study political science. “I want to do it for the kids in those classrooms,” Chloe said.
OLYMPIA — Signs alerting drivers to the availability of free coffee are returning to rest areas on I-5 in Smokey Point. A state transportation official said Thursday that by March new signage should be installed at exits to the rest stops in both directions of the highway, replacing lighted signs that broke down last year. Eleven other sites around the state will get new signs as well, Chris Christopher of the Department of Transportation told the Senate Transportation Committee. He outlined the agency’s plan in a public hearing on a bill to require the transportation department restore signs that it removed from 37 rest areas since 2011. Sen. Kirk Pearson, R-Monroe, sponsored the bill after learning nonprofit and service groups that serve up the free coffee for weary travelers have reaped fewer donations since the signs went away. Without them, drivers don’t know coffee
See CHLOE, Page A6
See SIGNS, Page A6
Fourth memorial run to honor correctional officer Herald Writer
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MONROE — When several hundred people gather Sunday for the annual Jayme Biendl memorial run, a few could be weighed down. And that’s the way they want it. Sgt. Troy Brightbill of the Cowlitz County Sheriff ’s Office and Sgt. Eric Bunday of the
Hillsboro, Oregon, Police Department plan to run the 5-kilometer course in full uniform. By one estimate, that’s about 25 pounds of gear. “They threw out a challenge to officers to participate in full uniform,” Monroe police Sgt. Cindy Chessie said. The event marks the fourth anniversary of Biendl’s death. The correctional officer, 34,
Red, red wine Hey, wait a minute — they drink wine in North Carolina? More than $300,000 of elite wine stolen from the famed French Laundry restaurant in California’s Napa Valley has been found in a private wine cellar in North Carolina (Page A8). The cache of prized vintages migh never have
been located had the alleged thieves remembered to camouflage it with a protective layer of TwoBuck Chuck and Yellow Tail Shiraz. Happy motoring: For the first time since 2009, most Americans are paying less than $2 a gallon for gasoline (Page A9), which leaves consumers with extra money for luxuries
died in the line of duty at the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe on Jan. 29, 2011. She was found strangled at her post in the prison chapel after her shift had ended. Inmate Byron Scherf, 56, was convicted of aggravated firstdegree murder and is on death row. The run — and for those who choose, a leisurely walk — is meant to celebrate the friend and co-worker Biendl was to many
like Two-Buck Chuck and Yellow Tail Shiraz. Experts agree the price of oil eventually will rise. That’s good news for the petrostate of Saudi Arabia, which was forced to choose the $650 budget funeral alternative option for the recently deceased King Abdullah. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1935, canned beer was
people, as well as her public service, organizers say. It is designed to be family friendly with dogs on leashes and babies in strollers welcome. Members of Biendl’s family are expected to participate, as they have in the past. Chessie said Sunday’s run should include about 400 people, roughly the number that showed up the first year. Any money made from the
sold for the first time, in Richmond, Virginia (Today in History, Page C6). Also on this day in 1935, a frat boy at the nearby University of Virginia gave himself a concussion by draining a can of beer in a single gulp, then attempting to crush the steel can by smashing it against his forehead.
— Mark Carlson, Herald staff
event will go to the Behind the Badge Foundation to help law enforcement families in their time of need. The event is from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday beginning and ending at Monroe’s Sky River Park, 818 Village Way. Registration is $30 but there is no guarantee of a shirt for those signing up on race day. Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446; stevick@heraldnet.com.
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