Auburn Reporter, November 20, 2015

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015

City’s homeless plight: a complex problem Pat Bailey Auburn’s community healthcare consultant, is working with city leaders to find ways to help the homeless. ROBERT WHALE,

Task force goes to work as leaders look for answers BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

While compiling her recent report on homelessness for Mayor Nancy Backus, Pat Bailey heard a lot about what it is doing to Auburn businesses.

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How things have gotten much worse over the last few years. From the apartment manager, who, frustrated by homeless finding their way into his building at night despite security measures, threw

up his hands in exasperation and said: “I’m too old for this!” to the businessman who cut down the vegetation behind his store to keep people from sleeping there. Yet, as Bailey, the City’s community healthcare con-

sultant, knows very well, the affect the homeless population is having on business is only one facet of a multisided, complex issue. To glean more, a friend advised Bailey, get yourself to McDonald’s on Auburn Way South at about 6 a.m., and [ more HOMELESS page 4 ]

Man charged with murder in woman’s death BY ROBERT WHALE rwhale@auburn-reporter.com

BEAR MARKET

Gerry Clift sells teddy bears and other things during the Auburn Valley YMCA’s annual craft bazaar last Saturday. Local artists displayed and sold handmade arts and crafts. Offerings included holiday gifts, decorations, jewelry, stocking stuffers and soaps. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

Prosecutors allege that Francisco Javier Escobedo killed 19-year-old Alize Gonzalez during an argument over drugs in the early morning hours of Nov. 10, then callously dumped her body alongside a road in Kent. The King County Prosecutor on Tuesday charged the 30-year-old Auburn man with second-degree murder while in the possession of a hand gun. Arraignment is at 9 a.m., Monday, Nov. 30 in Courtroom GA at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Bail is $2 million. “Given that the defendant killed a young woman and dumped her body on the side of the road during a drug-fueled encounter, the amount of bail requested is appropriate,” prosecutor Jessica Berliner told the court. [ more MURDER page 3 ]

Auburn High theater students get a taste of Shakespeare BY CHRIS CHANCELLOR cchancellor@auburn-reporter.com

All the world’s a stage, and Auburn High School’s theater students are more than happy to be players. On Monday, that is exactly what they did as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival presented the works of the Bard in an

interactive workshop where attendees performed excerpts from the famed plays. When AuKerr burn theater teacher Warren Kerr first found out about OSF’s School Visit

Program, he was intrigued by the prospect of bringing it to Auburn. At almost 80 years old, OSF is believed to be the oldest of its kind in the United States, producing 11 plays in a 10-month season every year. “I said I can’t take my kids down there to see them,” Kerr [ more BARD page 16 ]

Auditors investigating college BY HEIDI SANDERS hsanders@kentreporter.com

A team of auditors from the U.S. Department of Education visited Green River College’s campus this week to investigate potential Clery Act violations. The Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and

Campus Crime Statistics Act is a federal statute that requires colleges and universities participating in federal student aid programs to publish an annual security report that accurately discloses campus crime statistics [ more COLLEGE page 16 ]

Buddy, Ritchie & The Bopper | Nov. 20 & 21, 7:30 pm | $20/18 | Auburn Ave. Theater V. Contreras | Dec. 11, 7:30 pm | $17/15| Auburn Ave. Tickets: www.auburnwa.gov/arts | 253-931-3043 An Inspirational Christmas With Elvis | Dec. 12, 7:30 pm | $23/20| Auburn Ave. Theater 1426593


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