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This Week...
By Ray Still Reporter
• Sumner’s firework and
bridge lighting show will be lighting up the skies on Nov. 27 at 5 p.m. Celebration activities begin at the Old Cannery at 2 p.m. Go early - parking is limited. • ManeStage Theatre Company presents “A
Christmas Story” at 7 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday. The curtain rises at the Performing Arts Center at Sumner High School. Tickets are $22 for adults, $18 for students and seniors, and $12 for kids 10 and under.
• City offices and libraries are closed Thursday,
Nov. 26 for the holiday.
Weather The forecast for Wednesday calls for some well deserved sun and highs around 39. The night should remain cloud free with a low around 28. Thanksgiving Day also expects some sun with highs near 40.
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Holiday Spirit Bonney Lake Food Bank Director Stew Bowen organizes the 4,880 pounds, or nearly two and a half tons, of food donated during the second annual Mayor’s Food Drive Friday, 23 percent more than last year. Those making the drive a success include Mayor Neil Johnson, Councilman Randy McKibbon and Councilman-elect Justin Evans, the Bonney Lake High School Key Club, Emergency Food Network and DM Disposal. Photo by Ray Still
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Foundation plans to expand Sentimental Journey program MulitCare Health System contributes $10,000 grant for dying person’s last wish By Ray Still Reporter
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The Tacoma-Pierce County Board of Health unanimously approved new e-cigarette and vaping regulations Nov. 18. The goal of these new regulations is to limit e-cigarette use by minors and to protect the public from second-hand smoke exposure, according to a press release from the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. Starting Jan 1, 2016, the use of e-cigarettes in public places or places of work will be prohibited. Originally, bans on e-cigarettes and other vaping devices in the workplace were optional and up to the discretion of the employer. The original regulations prohibited sampling in e-cigarette retail stores, but the Board of Health passed an amendment allowing sampling if the retail meets a myriad of conditions, including; the retial store exclusively sells e-cigarette and vaping products; the retial store has an adequate ventilation system; the customer is over 18 years of age; and the samples are
Since the East Pierce Fire and Rescue Foundation’s Sentimental Journey program was certified by the Pierce County Emergency Medical Services medical director last April, more than a dozen patients in East Pierce Fire and Rescue’s district have been granted a last wish before they died. Now with a $10,000 grant from MultiCare Health System, the foundation can work on expanding this program to cover all of Pierce County
starting in January 2016. The Sentimental Journey program is funded by the foundation and comes at no cost to taxpayers; off-duty firefighters provide transport to hospice patients in a medic unit (paid for by the foundation) to a place of the patient’s choice, whether it be to lunch at their favorite restaurant with family, watching friends perform in a band or even getting married on Crystal Mountain. “Every journey is a joyous experience,” said foundation President Teresa McCallion. “It’s important not only to the hospice patient and their families, but to the firefighters who participate and even the hospice workers.” The reason the foundation organizes these last journeys, instead of the families of hospice patients, is because so
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Dan Brandenburg decided to take his grandson, Ryder, on his sentimental journey to Northwest Trek Wildlife Park. Courtesy photo
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