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Street conditions take a down turn in SOS report BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Pavement conditions of local streets are showing deterioration despite 10 years of efforts under Auburn’s Save Our Streets Program. That information is contained in “Save Our Streets, 2014 Year End Report,” compiled by the City’s engineering department and released this month. Street Systems Engineer Jai Carter explained to the Auburn City Council on Monday how that happened as he presented the latest pavement data available for local streets
Auburn’s Cindy Hutchings’ first published work is a collection of 42 poems about one tree. COURTESY PHOTO
Woman’s poetry branches out in ‘Tree Talk’ book BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
In the late spring of 2014, a publisher, editor and fellow poet tasked her friend, Cindy Hutchings, as follows: write a poem to a tree, every day for a month or so. Warming to her assignment, Hutchings picked a cedar across the street from her house in Auburn. And between June and July of 2014 she wrote 38 poems to that one tree, adding four more in January and one dedicated to her dad. Forty-two poems to the same tree? Hmmm … “I tried to work double meanings into them,” Hutchings explained this week with a laugh. Now Hutchings has released [ more POET page 7 ]
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The Auburn Valley Creative Arts gallery has closed its doors, but it is far from
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Brian Rozario, 8, takes on the climbing wall during the KidsDay celebration at Les Gove Park last Friday. The event, presented by the Auburn Parks, Arts and Recreation Department, offered a variety of children’s activities, live stage entertainment, arts-and-craft booths, food concessions and more than 80 information/activity vendors. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
gone. In fact, the organization is searching for a new home. AVCA, a nonprofit organization that started nearly six years ago, dedicates its
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Pacific settles final lawsuit from Sun days
Community arts group looking for a new gallery to call home BY AGUEDA PACHECO
vis-a-vis the street preservation program. Carter explained what happened. “We had a pavement rating system called Streetsaver that we used for several years, and we used data points that we collected in 2006 and 2008 for annexed areas where we rated pavement throughout the whole city. In 2013 the City had another pavement rating company come on board, and it used a newer piece of software to manage the whole system,” Carter said. That software, Carter said, gave the City one
time to promote, encourage and support art and local artists. It hosts visual art shows and offers art classes. Before its closure, the gallery was inside the Ar-
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cade Building, 222 E. Main St. in downtown. Zachary Tanner, AVCA president, said the decision [ more AVCA page 12 ]
It was the last employee lawsuit lingering from the controversial reign of former mayor Cy Sun. And on Monday, the City of Pacific officially laid its bones to rest. According to Guier Mayor Leanne Guier, the City and its insurance carrier recently settled with five current and former Pacific Police Officers who sued the City after the
town’s former mayor tried to fire them. Police blocked Sun from entering his thensealed office in July of 2012, handcuffed him and took him to a holding cell at the police station. After being released without charges being filed, Sun moved to fire the arresting officers, a police sergeant and a lieutenant. Guier said the settlement was for approximately $180,000, $22,000 [ more PACIFIC page 12 ]
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