Enumclaw Courier-Herald, October 07, 2015

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SEE INSIDE: Sumner to move court services to Bonney Lake | Page 5. . . Spartans tied for first in SPSL 3A League | Page 8 Area residents come away with Puyallup Fair awards | Page 22

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This Week... • Swimsafe is conven-

ing another meeting to discuss how to have another drowning-free summer next year. The meeting will be from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8 at the Bonney Lake Justice and Municipal Center.

• The Enumclaw Historic Society is celebrating its

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The Courier-Herald editorial staff is conducting an newspaper debate in the coming editions for Enumclaw City Council Position No. 2.

Opening statements

• Kimberly Lauk I became involved in this campaign because I am very concerned about protecting our histor-

ic rural community. Enumclaw was once a logging and farming community and that rich history is the heart and soul of this town. Farms, farmland and our surrounding timberlands to the east are what make this community a beautiful place to live, raise our families, and for seniors to safely retire. We don’t want Enumclaw to become like Auburn or Federal Way in the next few years.

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Darrel Dickson

Already we have too much traffic trying to get onto and off of the Plateau on our overtaxed roadways. Check out the miles of back ups some days just trying to get to Buckley

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• Darrel Dickson My name is Darrel Dickson. I am running for re-election as one of your Enumclaw City Council members. I live in Enumclaw because I have a deep love and strong ties to this community. I was born and raised here.

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Manager of Friendship House charged with first-degree theft Editor

The former house manager of the Friendship House in Enumclaw, Jamie M. Casteel, has been charged with one count of first degree theft by the King County Prosecuting

Attorney’s Office. Casteel was arraigned in King County Superior Court Friday, Oct. 1, at the Kent Regional Justice Center and entered a plea of not guilty. A case setting hearing is scheduled for Nov. 16 at the Regional Justice Center. Casteel

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is being represented by Maple Valley attorney Abraham Ritter. The Enumclaw Police Department probable cause document stated Casteel, “wrongfully deprived Friendship

King County’s SWAT team used the empty Del’s Farm Supply store in Enumclaw to practice hostile engagement scenarios, including training with remote controlled surveillance bots and breaching the building with explosives. Photo by Ray Still

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s many hikers and climbers know, the last stretch is the toughest. That is something Sumner School District Superintendent Sarah Johnson expected when she and her team of teachers and administrators decided to make the climb to become one of the top five school districts in Washington state in five years. Two years ago, Sumner School District was ranked 37th in the state by School Digger, a free school-ranking service that compares school and school district state assessment scores to determine which are the best (and the worst) in the nation. This year, Johnson announced the Sumner School District had jumped ahead and now sits as the 17th highest-ranked school district in the state. With its new rating, Sumner is now square in the top nine percent of school districts in Washington. While ranking schools and districts on state test scores doesn’t always ref lect the value of the institution, Johnson said it’s a good place for people to start when they’re researching what schools they want to enroll their kids in. “People have a hard time with the idea that you would rank a school district on their state assessments. It is just one ranking. I get that,” said Johnson. “But it does count in the sense that people are trying to figure out if this is a good school district or not. So when you look on there and you see a school district moving up, that indicates that something is going right in that

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to pay the bill while real estate speculators walk away with huge profits from poorly planned developments.

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20th anniversary and the 10th anniversary of the Enumclaw History Museum from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 18 at the museum. Snacks and drinks will be served.

The forecast for today, Wednesday, calls for a chance of rain with highs near 68. Lows at night drop to 53. Thursday may be the only sunny day of the week with highs near 68 and lows at night at 54 with a chance of rain. Friday, Saturday and Sunday all expect rain with highs near 69 and lows around 52.

from Enumclaw in the afternoon. What caught my interest was the current council’s plans of overturning preservation to develop farmland in Enumclaw and developing forests in the White River Tree Farm to the East. Although I support planned, responsible growth in the years to come, it is critical that infrastructure be in place first before development occurs. If it is not, we current taxpayers will be left

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