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Sports | Auburn’s Shelton comes home to face Seahawks as Browns rookie [9]
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2015
GIVING BACK
AVHS pays off debt to City one year ahead of time “are the single reason this organization is as successful as it is.” Getting every veteriWhat brought the narian in a community animal control folks together to form and to City Hall was their then keep a humane presentation of a check society going without for $102,548 to the City barking or sniping at Morgan of Auburn, paying off each other is a rare phedebt to the City one year nomenon. ahead of time. Phil Morgan has been in Tangible success with fur or enough communities in his day feathers on it, as the numbers to say with authority just how from the animal shelter’s opening unusual that is. day on Jan. 1, 2013 to Nov. 30 “These guys,” said Morgan, 2015 show: Auburn Valley Humane Society • Incoming animals: 2,309 director, indicating the animal dogs and puppies, 2,495 cats doctors arrayed behind him on a [ more AVHS page 7 ] recent night at Auburn City Hall, BY ROBERT WHALE
rwhale@auburn-reporter.com
Auburn’s Emily Dunham works with plastic surgeon Dr. Tertius Venter, of South Africa, in the operating room aboard Africa Mercy, a floating hospital off the shores of Madagascar. Mercy Ships, a global charity, has operated a fleet of hospital ships in developing nations since 1978. COURTESY PHOTO, Mercy Ships/Katie Keegan
LENDING A SKILLFUL HAND Auburn surgical nurse volunteers her time aboard floating hospital
BY MARK KLAAS mklaas@auburn-reporter.com
Emily Dunham finds comfort and completion in a workplace without parallel – the operating room. Being a part of a surgical team, the young nurse says, brings out the best of her skills. Recently, the Auburn woman pitched into an international relief effort, aboard a floating hospital
docked half a world away. Feeling the itch to see and meet new people, to experience fresh places and things, Dunham decided to do what she had always wanted to do – volunteer overseas. So, she saved her money, left her Seattle apartment and her job at Harborview Medical Center, where she had worked for three years in the OR, [ more NURSE page 8 ]
Pacific hails completion of road improvement project FOR THE REPORTER
After more than a decade of planning, engineering design, property acquisition and 18 months of heavy construction,
the Stewart and Thornton Road Improvement Project was officially completed and accepted by the City of Pacific. ICON Materials was awarded a $2.9 million construction con-
tract in June 2014 to construct the improvements. With change orders and additional work directed by the City, ICON’s [ more PROJECT page 3 ]
Cirque Ziva | January 16, 7:30 pm $25/20 | Auburn Performing Arts Center Tickets: www.auburnwa.gov or 253-931-3043 1439449
CESAR CISNEROS, 4, tacks a nail into his wooden toy project during the All Head Start Family Fun Night at Lea Hill Elementary School last Friday. The event included resources and information for families, and games, crafts and snacks for children. Many organizations and agencies participated in the fair. The Head Start program continues its important work in the Auburn School District, with classes housed at Lea Hill, Chinook, Pioneer and Terminal Park elementary schools. MARK KLAAS, Auburn Reporter