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INSIDE | Local wrestlers move on to regionals [10]
Voters decide key school measuresBY ROBERT WHALE
[email protected] a 61-year-old
school, Auburn High seems to be in good shape.
But looks aren’t everything.
Peel back the skin, district o� cials say, and you’d � nd infra-structure long past its
Jeremiah Carter was all smiles at an assembly at Mt. Baker Middle School last week.SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter
Injured teacher returns to thank students, sta� BY SHAWN SKAGER
Students at Mt. Baker Middle School got a surprise visit last week.
Jeremiah Carter, a popular algebra teacher who was injured in a Nov. 25 accident that le� him paralyzed, returned to cheers, hugs
and smiles at a pep assembly.It was the � rst appearance at the
Auburn school for Carter. He has been recovering from injuries sus-tained a� er he fell o� a 40-foot blu� while cutting down a Christmas tree near Crystal Mountain.
“I can’t tell you how good it feels to be back in this place again,” Carter said before a frenzied crowd of students assembled in the
Welcome back, Carter
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Auburn babysitter gets 10 years for shaking child; family copingBY ROBERT WHALE
In a split second on May 20, 2010, Dottie Reed, 18, let her frustrations with the fussy 8-month-old baby she was sitting at her Auburn home boil over. She set him down on the � oor hard, once, maybe twice, and spun him around.
� at’s all it took.Doctors at Children’s Hospital
later told Colby � ompson’s parents that the shock had snapped the ba-by’s neck back, grievously injuring his brain, breaking it apart. Doctors said he probably would not survive the swelling inside his skull, and that they should prepare themselves to say goodbye.
Somehow Colby lived, but the once happy, gurgling baby, mom’s “little ham” with the big smile and bright life ahead is gone. In his place is a boy whose parents have to hook him to a feeding tube � ve times a
day so he doesn’t suck food into his lungs. Who is prone to episodes of seizure-like “storming” from the neurological damage he sustained.
Who can’t talk, probably can’t see, and su� ers from muscle sti� ness,
‘She murdered who my
Chris and Jamie Thompson face challenges providing care for their 2½-year-old son, Colby, who is severely disabled from being shaken by his babysitter. ROBERT WHALE, Reporter
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Crowning moment: Outgoing Miss Auburn Daniela Ferrell places the tiara on the new Miss Auburn, Tera Sabo.RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
child was supposed to be’
BY MARK KLAAS
Tera Sabo considered herself a contestant, not a contender.
A year removed from her � rst experience at the Miss Auburn Scholar-ship Pageant pageant, the 18-year-old from Maple Valley returned a wiser, more composed young woman to confront the bright lights of the Per-forming Arts Center stage.
What Sabo didn’t expect was soaring to the top of a talented � eld of 21 other women last Saturday night, capturing the crown and more than $10,000 in gi� s, awards and scholarships.
“I was completely shocked. I didn’t think I was even going to place,” Sabo said as family members hugged and kissed her
Sabo captures Miss Auburn title
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Attorney: Most states, including Washington have a child support enforcement department. Here, it is called Division of Child Support (a subdivision of DSHS). It used to be called “Office of Support Enforcement.” That agency can undertake to collect child support, current and back, in a variety of ways, including garnishment of wages, garnishment of bank accounts, not providing a release when someone is applying for a passport, suspending a person’s license (usually if the person is 6+ months behind on support), and other remedies. Sometimes, the back amount can be captured through an IRS intercept if the person owing child support is expecting a tax refund. The best thing to do to avoid all of these negative repercussions, of course, is to be current and remain current on child support, and catch up the back amount. If you want your passport, hire a lawyer to deal with DCS, who often desire proof of employment before giving a release for a passport.
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gymnasium last Friday.Carter then resumed
his duty of announcing the Pride Couch recipi-ents, three students – one from each grade – who are honored with a comfy spot on a sofa during the school’s quarterly pep rallies.
“It was great that he could come back and do it,” Principal Greg Brown said. “It just hasn’t been the same here without him. It was amazing to have him back where he belongs, even it was for just a day.”
� e appearance was an opportunity for Carter – who hopes to resume teaching at the school next year – to personally thank the students who participated in fundrais-ing activities. More than $7,000 has been raised toward remodeling his house to make it wheel-chair friendly.
More fundraising is planned. � e Washington National Golf Club hosts Jerry’s Wheels Charity
Tournament and Dinner Auction on March 24 to raise money for the Carter family.
For more information, visit www.jerryswheels.wordpress.com.
[ CARTER from page 1 ] prime, leaking roofs, outdated � re suppression facilities and a heating, cooling and ventilation sys-tem dating to the Truman administration.
� e upshot – students le� shivering in cold class-rooms, as happens all too o� en when the old boiler goes on the fritz.
Keeping the aging school going eats up too much money, too, District Super-intendent Kip Herren re-cently told the Auburn City Council. Electricity alone adds up to $75,000 yearly, compared to an average of $21,000 at the district’s other high schools.
Indeed, keeping AHS go-ing costs the district about $250,000 more per year than those other schools do.
“People don’t know,” Herren said, “that Auburn High School is falling apart on the inside. … � e bones weren’t built to go over 60 years old.”
� e Auburn School District Board of Directors, keenly aware of the issues, last fall approved putting
before voters Tuesday an Auburn High School mod-ernization and reconstruc-tion bond, packaged with an educational programs and operations replacement levy.
� e bond proposal asks for $110 million. Money from the bond sale, added to $10 million from the school district’s Capital Projects Fund, would pay for the project. What’s more, Herren said, the state of Washington would kick in a $25 million match for reconstruction.
BY ROBERT WHALE
Walmart and Coastal Farm and Ranch have � nished their pur-chase and sale agreement process, making Coastal’s ownership of the old Walmart building and site at 1425 Supermall Way o� cial Monday.
Coastal Farm & Ranch, one of the largest retail supply chains in the Paci� c Northwest, last year signed a letter of intent to buy the
former Walmart store property, which the retail giant vacated upon completion of its new super-store north of the Regal Auburn Stadium 17 theaters in 2010.
� e City’s Public Works Depart-ment already has issued Coastal’s contractor a demolition permit. De-molition, which is expected to take three weeks, calls for removal of the brushed steel fascia and relocation of the entry door.
According to the Coastal Farm & Ranch website, the Albany,
Ore.-based company o� ers cloth-ing, hardware, tools, welding and automotive equipment, farm equipment, tack, feed and supple-ments at stores throughout Wash-ington and Oregon, among them outlets in a former Walmart store in Mount Vernon and in Yakima and Wenatchee. It also carries western footwear and fashion brands, including boots from top manufacturers like Danner, Justin, Georgia, Double-H and LaCrosse.
Concerned that the vacant
store would become derelict, City o� cials early last year threat-ened to revoke the new Walmart superstore’s occupancy permit if Walmart failed to ful� ll the obligations spelled out in a 2006 development agreement between it, Walmart and the SuperMall’s owner, Glimcher Properties.
� at agreement committed Walmart to � nding a new tenant for the store within � ve years or to razing it and building new ones. � e agreement also gave the City
a choice of saying yes or no to any uses of the 150,000-square-foot building.
According to the City’s letter, Walmart’s sale of the site to Coast-al constitutes its � nal compliance with the settlement agreement, if the deal closed by Jan. 30, 2012. But if the sale had fallen through, the City would consider Walmart in breach of the agreement and subject to payment of damages.
Walmart, outfitter complete deal over vacancy
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Please voteKing County Elections of-
� cials encourage residents to mail in their ballots by Tuesday.
Mailed ballots require � rst class postage and must be postmarked by Feb. 14.
Voters are reminded to sign their name on the back of the envelopes to make their ballots o� cial.
Jeremiah Carter interacts with the audience as student leaders and Principal Greg Brown, far right, head a pep assembly at Mt. Baker Middle School last Friday. SHAWN SKAGER, Auburn Reporter
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which has dislocated his hips.Last week Superior Court
Judge Cheryl Carey sentenced the woman who did all that to the child in her care to the maximum 123 months – more than 10 years – in prison, minus the nearly two years she already has served. Reed, now, 20 pleaded guilty to assault last month.
As Jamie Thompson told the courtroom at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center, her son will never run, play or pull bright ornaments off the Christmas tree as he should be doing. He probably won’t marry or have a family. The damage to his brain is so extensive, she said, doctors have warned her and Chris not to expect him to grow much taller than he has already.
“She murdered who my child was supposed to be,” Thompson cried softly, as the baby in his stroller lolled his eyes from side to side, perhaps seeing nothing more than shades of black and white. Considering the lasting damage Reed did to her child, Thompson said before Carey pronounced sentence, anything other than the stiffest penalty would not be fair.
“She slammed my 8-month-old child,” Thompson sobbed. “He couldn’t tell her, ‘No, please don’t hurt me.’ She knew what she was doing. She’s a mother herself. She knows babies cry.”
Between the round-the-clock
care Colby needs, the medications that keep him alive and unexpect-ed trips to the hospital, family life at the Thompson home in Algona necessarily centers on him. Mom and dad spend up to 20 hours each day caring for their son, now two-and-a-half years old.
“We don’t live a normal life anymore,” Jamie Thompson said.
According to court documents, Reed was babysitting Colby and his older sister, Jewel, that day at her home in Auburn when she called 911 to report that the child would not wake up and that his breathing stopped whenever she set him down.
Injuries sustainedValley Regional Fire Authority
medics found the baby unrespon-sive and limp. Medics airlifted him to Seattle Children’s Hospital, where doctors diagnosed him with a subdural hematoma, a subarachnoid hemorrhage and retinal hemorrhaging. Such inju-ries didn’t mesh with Reed’s initial claims of innocence. Police said that only she could have caused such injuries.
According to court documents, Reed told detectives that she’d been frustrated with Colby for weeks because of his fussiness. It appeared, Reed said, that he didn’t like her.
Auburn Police Detective Michelle J. Vojir wrote in court documents that Reed told her
she had picked Colby up roughly from under his arms and put him down on the floor of her bedroom “really hard.” At that moment, she said, she heard a sound as the baby’s head snapped forward. He began crying but stopped and ap-peared to be falling asleep.
Reed told detectives that she had been standing next to Colby’s playpen when she noticed that he wasn’t breathing.
“Reed said that was when she realized that she had hurt him. She said that she put (him) down too hard and turned him around too quick and hard, and that shook him. Reed stated that when she did it, she wasn’t really think-ing about what she was doing, that it just happened,” Vojir wrote.
But the Thompsons say it didn’t have to happen. Why didn’t Reed tell Colby’s parents about her frus-trations so they could arrange for another sitter, instead of telling them two days earlier that every-thing was great? Or, if she had been feeling overwhelmed, why didn’t she call Chris Thompson, who worked five minutes away from her home?
The couple trusted Reed and defended her against suspicion the first few days after Colby was injured. Jamie Thompson had thanked her repeatedly for call-ing 911. They learned from the television news that she had been arrested and what police were say-ing she had done to their baby.
“We felt betrayed,” Chris
Thompson said.Some people have questioned
the Thompsons for answering Reed’s Craigslist ad, which de-scribed her Christian family, her multi-generational support and that she didn’t drink or smoke.
“People have said that we should be in jail too because we chose someone from Craigslist,” Jamie Thompson said. “You know, we did talk to family. We did talk to friends. I did background checks on her. It wasn’t just the first person we found. I emailed back and forth with her. I talked with her several times on the phone. She came to our house to meet our kids with her kid and see how things worked. We met again another time, and she and her mom tried it out at our house. One of our kids was home sick and another was home from col-lege, so there was somebody here.
“It’s not like we called up an ad on Tuesday evening, and Wednes-day morning she was watching my kids,” Jamie Thompson said.
Chris Thompson said they learned only after the fact that there were family interventions with Child Protective Services in Reed’s background.
“But that’s the stuff that nobody could ever find out then. That’s why we pushed for licensing,” he said.
Last year Gov. Chris Gregoire signed the Colby Thompson Act of 2011 to protect children and ease the minds of concerned
parents throughout the state. An expansion of existing law, the Act increases transparency so the public can know the licensing sta-tus and violations of any given day care facility before enrolling their child, not after. The Department of Early Learning had already required most child care provid-ers to be licensed. Few avenues, however, existed for parents to research the licensing history, in-cluding violations, of prospective facilities. The Thompsons were key to passage of the bill.
Could they forgive Reed?“I can’t say never,” Jamie
Thompson said. “But right now, I can’t foresee a time when I could.”
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TwO Des MOInes Men linked to the shooting death of a man in Auburn on Jan. 10 were arraigned at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center last week.
King County Prosecutors have charged Denzil Moore, 44, with first-degree murder for the alleged shooting death of 55-year-old Thomas Humphries. A sec-ond defendant, Glae Roland, 34, is facing a charge of rendering criminal assistance in the first degree.
Both men pleaded not guilty.According to Auburn Police Detec-
tive Buie Arneson’s account of events, which forms the basis of the charges against both men, Moore shot and killed 55-year-old Humphries and disposed of his body at a vacant home at 11112 SE 304th St. in Auburn.
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Washington wine for Japanese sake.Sounds like an inviting exchange, and one
international business arrangement Auburn leaders soon hope to toast.
Both sides – born out of the City of Au-burn’s longstanding Sister City relationship with Tamba, Japan – are close to shaking hands on an import-export deal.
Negotiations intensi� ed last week when Shuzo Nishiyama, president of Kotsuzumi Brewery in Tamba, met with city and state o� cials to discuss the possibility of doing business.
Jim Wilson, owner of the Auburn Wine & Caviar Co., belongs to a consortium
of about a dozen or so statewide wineries ready to ship their best wholesale labels overseas to Japan. In exchange, Nishiyama’s premium sake, the No. 1 Internet seller in Japan, and other products would reach
Paci� c Northwest shelves and penetrate a larger North American market.
“A� er seeing Auburn (for the � rst time), I sort of feel ‘gung ho,’” said Nishiyama, through an interpreter, Glenn Tamai. “I know something about (Northern) Cali-fornia wines, but little about Washington’s. � at is why I am here.”
Nishiyama, who hopes to introduce the taste of Paci� c Northwest wine to the Japanese market, met Wilson, other Washington winery representatives and distributors and buyers while in the Puget Sound area last week. � e relationship began six months ago when Wilson
Criticism was aimed at City
Allow me to respond to letters regarding my storm-related letter.
In the � rst place, I wasn’t criticizing Puget Sound Energy. I noted that they had a tough job, and I appreciated getting my power turned on as quickly as they did. However, we pay a big price for that power, and I don’t think it’s too much to expect good service from them or Comcast.
My criticism was of the City of Auburn. And I don’t apolo-gize to anyone for that.
And, as far as me being “self-centered,” I beg your pardon. I too am a senior citizen, and I wasn’t concerned about myself, but for my husband who just
happens to be gravely ill with cancer and Parkinson’s disease. I was concerned for his safety.
Cities should be prepared for all kinds of inclement weather, including snow. We have had some bad snowstorms in the
past, including last year, and our weather appears to be get-ting more severe each year.
To condone the way the City does business is ridiculous.– Jeanne Herold
Bill takes away our freedoms
We are looking at the � rst step in the demise of the Bill of Rights, and I am frightened because the majority of Ameri-cans don’t seem to care, and those who do are sitting quietly watching it happen.
Before leaving for their Christ-mas break, Congress passed and Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act
G U E S T E D I T O R I A L
BY CHUCK AND LEILA BOOTH
For the Auburn Reporter
Auburn voters have two is-sues before them on the Febru-ary special election ballot. � e � rst is a replacement levy to continue funding educational programs and activities and the second is a reconstruction and modernization bond to replace Auburn High School.
As a former educator, administrator and mayor, I urge you to vote “yes” for both positions for our students and our community.
� e replacement levy allows
the district to keep personnel in place to lower class size and focus on enhanced instruction. Funding all activities and ath-letic programs, as well as part of the transportation budget and basic programming as well as AP, STEP and programming for students with learning dis-abilities allows education not only to work but also to excel for all of Auburn’s students.
Learning environments mat-ter for students, families and communities. � e district com-mitted to, and residents sup-ported, Auburn Riverside and Mountainview high schools to
serve our growing populations. � e time is now – with record low costs of borrowing and construction – to replace the classrooms and instructional spaces for students downtown and put them on par with resources and facilities at our other high schools.
Considerable data shows the positive impact facilities have on student achievement. In new spaces, teachers are able to use the best technology and collaboration methods for instruction and students’ rates
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Vote ‘yes’ for our students, communityGolf course works to get up to par
In response to the Jan. 20 Auburn Re-porter article, “Golf course remains in the rough,” the reporter didn’t re� ect the other side of the Auburn Golf Course story.
� e City Municipal Services Committee has been tracking the performance of the golf course for several years. In this time, the City has reduced sta� and made other business adjustments because of poor weather seasons and the economy in general.
Other golf courses in the area, both mu-nicipal and private, have su� ered the same
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and other Auburn business leaders visited Tamba, where the con-tingent toured Nishiyama’s large brewery.
Considered an innovative brew-er, Nishiyama is a sixth-generation operator of the family business that exports to 22 countries, including China. He has an international law degree, is involved in the devel-opment of a cosmetic company and remains closely involved in Tamba’s merchant network.
His brewery is well known, having produced award-winning sake from locally grown rice and natural water for more than 160 years.
Wilson is optimistic about striking a deal. He represents one of a few Auburn-based businesses that have stepped forward and established overseas contacts in a push to do international commerce.
“Discussions are going on, but we’re really excited about it,” said Wilson, whose shop hosted a wine-and-sake-tasting party with Nishiyama and other business reps last week. “� e possibilities are tremendous. It’s a great, fantastic opportunity.”
At home, Wilson has done good business, despite a sour economy, with a conservative but progres-sive approach to selling wine of all descriptions.
By forming a consortium, with Wilson’s immediate ties with Tamba, the Washington wine group hopes a deal can be expedited and not become mired in red tape.
“When the � rst bottle of wine goes out, it will be a win for Auburn,” said Doug Lein, City economic development manager. “It’s a beginning process, but this is big for us.”
� e City has worked with several camps – beginning close to home
with the Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce – and continuing with government leaders, such as U.S. Congressman Dave Reichert, R-Auburn, to promote the deal.
� e sides even met up with Kiyokazu Ota, the consul general of Japan to Seattle, for talks last week. Ota, Nishiyama and Wilson discussed many issues. Ota came away supporting the idea, Lein said.
Sides also toured a Columbia Wine facility to show how distri-bution and sales are conducted throughout the U.S.
� e groundwork is in place, the follow-through is in motion. Early signs indicate a deal is imminent.
“It’s a comfortable relationship,” Lein said. “� is sets the tone. … � is has a real positive way to move forward.
“It’s creating a pipeline, a road-map for the next (local) company (to do business).”
[ PELOZA from page 5 ] downturns in their business base, thus having to turn to other � nan-cial means to keep the ship a� oat and above par.
In Auburn, we are blessed to have a wonderful golf course that is viewed by the whole region as an oasis green belt near a scenic Green River. � e course has a talented golf superintendent in Kevin Van and crew who have implemented many golf architec-tural design improvements within reasonable costs to the golf course budget.
� e course was created by a
group of private citizens who spent many days and hours nurturing old pastureland. A� er the City purchased the course, it spent millions of dollars over the years upgrading the course to provide better play, including building a new golf course facility for its customers.
� e Municipal Services Com-mittee – in collaboration with Mayor Pete Lewis – has discussed the challenges of the golf course, beset by conditions of nature and the economy. Many sta� meet-ings have been held dealing with the total golf course operation,
including the restaurant. Changes began several months
ago to turn around the operation into the enterprise pro� t cen-ter it once was before the hard times. Many of the changes that were recommended by the hired National Golf Foundation (NGF) consultant were similar to City sta� ’s, and management imple-mented changes.
All of the problems addressed in the Auburn Reporter article don’t deal entirely with what “golf-ers” want to eat or drink. � e golf course has implemented improve-ments in providing a fast-food
breakfast venue. � e course operation does pro-
vide a food “turn window,” roving food/refreshment 18-hole cart service, plus food and pro shop discounts.
� e course is experiencing more golf tournaments since the new clubhouse has been in opera-tion. � e mayor’s sta� has made adjustments to marketing and total operations.
In summary, any operation or business has its skeptics, nothing is perfect. But we will see an im-provement in the months ahead by implementing planned City
changes, as well as NGF recom-mendations.
� e NGF report comments were that the golf course has “good quality amenities” and “re� ects very positive on the city’s image” as a whole.
� e Municipal Services Com-mittee is committed to seeing that a revised golf course business plan is brought forth in the com-ing months to ensure � nancial stability and sustainability of the Auburn Golf Course.
Bill Peloza is an Auburn City councilmember and City Municipal Services chair. Reach him at [email protected].
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Sweet visitSouth Korean students, from left, Elrain Lee, Cathy Choi and Mindy Hyun receive a free sample of Gosanko Chocolate from Amy Kampton during their visit last week. Buena Vista Elementary Adventist School – as part of a “sisterhood” exchange of educational and cultural ties with the country – hosted students from the Youngnam Sahmyook Academy of Daegu, South Korea. The group spent time in classrooms immersed in English, but also explored Auburn and the Seattle area while staying with host families. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
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...obituariesTracy Lynn Mathes
12/2/69 – 2/3/12Born to Ronald and Sue Mathes; died at home
in Auburn, WA. She is survived by a son, Brandon; daughters, Alycia and Heather; grandson, Axel; aunts, Cherie Doyle and Linda Nicholson; mother, Sue Culp; aunt, Linda; grandmother, McEwen and half-sister Dawn.
Tracy was a wonderful person, had a heart of gold, very caring, and would help anyone anyway she could. She had many friends and always will be in our hearts.
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Rita StorinoRita Storino, 85, surrounded
by adoring family, passed peacefully, clutching her rosary, to be with her Lord on February 6, 2012.
Born Rita Verta in 1926 in Calabria, Italy, Rita married her husband of 59 years, Vincenzo Storino (1918-2002), in 1943.
In 1963, with the help of Vince’s brother, Angelo Storino of Seattle, Rita packed up her eight children, Aldo, Anna, Eva, Lucia, Maria,
Angelo and twins Adriana and Rosa and left their farm in San Marco Argentano. The family settled in Auburn, where Daniel and Tina were born. In 2003, she moved into Stafford Suites in Sumner where she received loving care from the wonderful staff. Rita was a member of the Son’s of Italy Lodge and Holy Family Parish since 1963.
She is survived by 17 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews and will be missed by all.
Funeral Services will be at Holy Family Church in Auburn at 1:00 pm Friday, February 10, 2012. Entombment will follow in the Gethsemane Catholic Cemetery. Visitation Thursday, from 5pm to 8pm at Klontz Funeral Home, Auburn.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Holy Family School, Auburn.
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of truancy and disciplinary infractions decline, while achievement rates improve.
Sadly, the present 60-year-old structure is in such a state that bringing it fully to code and making needed improvements will cost more than 70 percent of the cost of a new build-ing.
The reconstruction bond will create a better, more efficient and longer lasting structure meeting seis-mic and energy efficiency standards, which will make the facility safer and longer
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The Auburn School District and its students have achieved considerable success despite cuts in state support for education.
Continued support for vital programs and replac-ing the increasingly dilapi-dated high school facility downtown are good for our students and Auburn families.
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AYR hosts fundraising Valentine Breakfast
Auburn Youth Re-sources and Enumclaw Youth & Family Ser-vices host its 21st annual Valentine Breakfast, the organizations’ largest annual fundraising event, at 7 p.m. Friday at Grace Community Church, 1320 Auburn Way S.
The program in-cludes: an agency report; speakers; remarks from
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AYR, a nonprofit or-ganization, has success-fully impacted the lives of youths and families in King and Pierce Counties for nearly 40 years.
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Auburn police responded to the fol-lowing calls for service, among many others, between Feb. 3 and Feb. 7:
Feb. 3Shoplifting: 12:45 p.m., 762 Super-mall Drive SW. Police arrested a woman for lifting 18 cosmetic and clothing items of undisclosed value from the Walmart Superstore. The woman also admitted to smoking heroin with a pipe she had.
Marijuana: 12:30 p.m., 800 4th St. NE. Auburn High School authorities found marijuana on a girl.
Fraud: Noon, 3700 block of H Street Northeast. A woman sold an Xbox but forgot to remove the credit card infor-mation on it. Somebody with larceny in the heart noted the oversight and went
on a thieving spree.
Shoplifting: 6:10 p.m., 801 Auburn Way N. A man tried to swipe two cell phone rechargers from Fred Meyer but store security caught him and called in the law. Police did not disclose a value for the chargers.
Malicious mischief: 10:15 p.m., 2402 Auburn Way S. Police arrested a man at the Muckleshoot Casino for malicious mischief after he took out his many frustrations on the glass screen of a video slot machine. Police did not disclose a value for the damages.
Feb. 4Vandalism: 2 a.m., 300 block of Park Avenue North. Somebody shoved a plug of compressed mud and pine needles up the exhaust pipe of a man’s 1998 Nissan Maxima while he was away at work.
Vandal and sign ripper: 3:55 a.m., 801 Auburn Way N. A man struck an SUV with an unknown instrument, ripped a sign out of the ground and vanished onto the early morning streets
of Auburn. A witness saw it all.
Theft: 9:40 p.m., 1301 31st St. SE. A young man broke items in the apart-ment he shares with his granny then snatched away the old lady’s cell phone when she tried to call to report his rampage.
Theft: 9:56 a.m., 414 17th St. SE. A gas slurper sucked up valuable petrol from a vehicle at Regency Auburn Rehab.
Shoplifting: 11:21 a.m., 1406 Lake Tapps Parkway SE. Police arrested a boy for shoplifting and released him to the undisclosed mercies of his none-too-happy father.
Feb. 5Trespassing: 7:54 a.m., 4104 C St. NE. Whatever the man did, his acts had reached such a fever pitch of badness that he got himself booted from an Auburn business for five years.
Shoplifting: 1:51 p.m., 101 Auburn Way S. A man brought a plastic bag into Safeway to carry away the goods he
hoped to steal, but store security caught him in the act.
Feb. 6Theft: 3:30 p.m., 620 37th St. SE. Somebody lifted a teacher’s wallet from her purse at Mt. Baker Middle School and school authorities tracked it to a student.
Feb. 7Theft: 1:37 p.m., 2701 Auburn Way N. Persons unknown lifted 15 batteries from camper trailers at Auburn Val-ley RV, vandalizing the trailers in the process. Police did not disclose a dollar amount for the damages.
Theft: 10:51 p.m., 501 Auburn Way N. Three kids swiped a golf cart from a lo-cal car dealership and went on a joy ride through south Auburn. But the happy times were short lived. The kids were seen, reported, and arrested after own-ing up to the thievery. Police released the kids to their parents and forwarded the case to the juvenile prosecutor.
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Police BlotterThe Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 165 calls for service between Jan. 30 and Feb. 5, among them the following:
Jan. 30Aid call: 10:02 p.m., (Lakeland Hills). Firefighters treated a woman suffer-ing from general weakness secondary to cancer and transported her to a local hospital for further care.
Feb. 1Smoke investigation: 7:47 p.m., (Pacific). Firefighters investigated a possible chimney fire but found nothing amiss when they got to the house.
Feb. 2Aid call: 9:54 a.m., (Algona). After examining a woman at the Algona
Police Department who’d been com-plaining about her hurting shoulder, firefighters recommended that she seek further medical attention. The woman said she would visit her private physician later that day.
Feb. 3Aid call: 9:16 p.m., (Lea Hill). Firefighters treated a teenage boy who’d been vomiting and a private ambulance transported him in stable condition to Auburn Regional Medical Center.
Feb. 4 Aid call: 12:38 p.m., (Auburn). Firefighters helped an older man who’d been struggling to breathe and transported him to ARMC for further care.
Feb. 5Aid call (Pacific): 12:31 p.m. Fire-fighters helped a toddler in seizure and arranged for a private ambulance to transport him to ARMC.
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following the coronation.“� is year I had a lot more con� dence in myself. I was true to myself and knowing I’m worthy of being on the stage.”
Poised and relaxed, Sabo was ready for the challenge of an intense, two-night journey of competition. For taking the tiara, she earns the honor of representing Auburn for a year and au-tomatically quali� es for the Miss Washington Pageant in July.
� e Miss Auburn pro-gram, sponsored by the Auburn Noon Lions Club, is an o� cial preliminary to the Miss Washington and Miss America Scholarship pageants.
Celebrating its 50th year,
the Miss Auburn show-case generated more than $58,000 in gi� s, awards and scholarships for its contes-tants, continuing its stand-ing as one of the largest and most successful local pageants in the country.
Auburn’s Salina Ellison was � rst-runner-up and Stefanie Burger second run-ner-up, followed by Hannah Woods (third runner-up), Jessica Justice (fourth) and Gabrielle Bonner (� � h).
A classically-trained pianist, Sabo performed her favorite piece – Melody Bober’s majestic solo, “Mid-night Rhapsody”.
Sabo, a Tahoma High School graduate, completes her associate degree in busi-ness at Green River Com-munity College through the
Running Start program this spring. An honors student, she plans to study business administration at Seattle Paci� c University this fall. She would like to obtain an MBA with an emphasis in social enterprise and a minor in global and urban ministries.
Sabo aspires to lead and help – at her church and in the community.
She ultimately would like to become associated with a nonpro� t organization and “travel around the world and help people.”
Active in her church, she is a youth group leader and mentor. She competed on the platform in support of Big Brothers Big Sisters, where she is waiting to be matched with a “Little
Sister” in the mentoring program.
She has organized fund-raisers for mission teams; helped build a house on a Mexico mission trip for a family in need in 2009, and served an impoverished community on a mission trip to Westwood, Calif., last August.
In addition, she orga-nized community blood drives and initiated and or-ganized a clothing drive for poverty-stricken families.
Sabo, daughter of Gary and Kristi Sabo, was spon-sored by Columbia Bank. Caialani Patin and Mack-
enzie Cook were her Little Sisters.
Arthur takes teen title
Auburn’s Al-lison Arthur won the Miss Auburn Outstanding Teen Pageant held last Saturday a� ernoon at the PAC.
Arthur, a ju-nior at Jefferson High School, topped a field of 11 other contestants. She qualifies for the Miss Washington Teen Pageant in March.
“I wasn’t expecting it,” said Arthur, 17. “I don’t know how to feel, but now I feel pretty excited. I felt I did my best.”
Arthur, daughter of Brian and Ladonna Arthur, performed a jazz dance to the music of “Piece Of My Heart”.
Cami Werden was � rst runner-up, followed by Alyssa Schnell (second runner-up) and Georgia Ri� e
(third).
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Alumni: Past Miss Auburn winners returned for the pageant’s 50th anniversary. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter
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BY SHAWN SKAGER
� e Auburn Riverside 200-yard freestyle relay team quali� ed for the state 4A boys swimming and diving championship with a � � h-place � nish at the West Central District meet at Curtis High School last Saturday.
� e Ravens squad – seniors Michael Baber and Mitch Bredl, and juniors James Marshal and Daniel Waller – posted a 1-minute, 36.25-second time to snag a
berth to state.Auburn Riverside coach Patrick McKee-
han praised his swimmers’ performance.“� ey just had a great mindset,” he
said. “� ey were excited to be there. � ey wanted to perform well and they did. � ey were excited at the opportunity to go to state, and they really came together at the right time with the right attitude. � ey work really hard. � ey’re real fun to coach.”
Although the 200 free relay was the only
BY SHAWN SKAGER
First-year Auburn wres-tling coach Dennis Herren expected big things from his squad at last weekend’s South Puget Sound League North 4A sub-regional meet at Kent-Meridian High School.
And the Trojans deliv-ered on the mats, grabbing third in the team competi-tion with 226.4 points and advancing eight wrestlers to this weekend’s West Central District III Regional meet at � omas Je� erson High School.
“I am really happy with this group of wrestlers,” Herren said.
Auburn � nished the tournament boasting three weight-class winners, with senior Brian Alonzo and juniors Seth Mizoguchi and Josh Tate snagging champi-onships.
Alonzo – who � nished
� � h at 103 pounds at last year’s Washington State Mat Classic XXIII Champion-ships – defeated Tahoma’s Todd Link 3-1 in the title match to take � rst at 106
pounds.At 160, Mizoguchi came
from behind against Kent-wood’s Jonathan Ohashi to win the title with a 14-5 major decision.
“(His) third-round throws to come from behind in the � nals and win the league title were remarkable,” Herren said of Mizoguchi.
Also stepping up for the Trojans was Tate, who defeated two state placers – Tahoma’s Dan Haniger (fourth at 135 pounds in 2011) and Auburn team-mate Tilden Sansom (sev-enth at 145 pounds in 2011) – on his way to the title.
“He is surprisingly dan-gerous,” Herren said.
Tate outlasted Sansom 7-2 in the title match.
In addition to its indi-vidual winners, Auburn moves on sophomore Cam-eron Hiller (fourth at 113), sophomore Tyson Gaillac (third at 126), senior San-som (second at 152), senior Stephen Heinze (fourth at 170) and junior James West (second at 182).
Herren credited his senior leadership for his team’s performance at the tourney.
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Auburn’s Brian Alonzo, right, and Tahoma’s Todd Link square o� in the 106-pound title match. Alonzo grabbed the championship with a 3-1 decision. KRIS HILL, Reporter
Raven 200 free relay team qualifies for state
Michael Baber in the pool during the South Puget Sound League 4A league meet at Curtis High School. SHAWN SKAGER, Reporter
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LION BOYS SWIM TAKES FOURTH AT
SUB-DISTRICT MEET The Auburn Mountainview boys
swimming and diving team snagged fourth-place at this past weekend’s South Puget
Sound League 2A/3A sub-district meet at Lakes High School. The Lions scored 271 team
points. Peninsula � nished � rst with 571 points. Auburn
Mountainview competes in the West Central District III 2A/3A
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event the Ravens quali-fied for state, McKee-han said the 400 free relay team – which set a school-record time of 3:33.77 in the district finals – is a wild-card nominee with an out-side chance of making it to state in the event of a lane vacancy. Wild-card teams with the fastest times earn berths until the lanes are filled.
The Ravens 400 relay team at the league meet was comprised of Baber, Bredl, Marshall and junior Matty Benabid.
Baber, who swims on the 200 and 400 free relay teams, also set a school record in the 200 free at district (1:55.27), despite not qualifying for state in the event.
The Ravens’ perfor-mance at district is a culmination of hard work put in during the past four years, Baber said.
“I was really sur-prised that we made it to state,” he said. “I knew we were good, but I didn’t know we were that good. I was re-ally surprised when we broke the 400 record. That came from out of nowhere. I think it’s because of everybody who works hard at practice, which makes everybody else feel like they need to work hard at practice.”
Regardless of the team’s performance at the upcoming state meet, McKeehan said he feels that the season has been a success.
“It’s been a really great season. They’ve got great attitudes. They work hard and like to compete. They really get into the team aspect of it.”
The state meet begins at 2:30 p.m. Feb. 17 and continues Feb. 18 at the King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way.
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The Auburn Riverside and Auburn Mountainview gymnastics teams compete in Saturday’s West Central District III meet at Mount Rainier High School.
The Ravens quali-fied with a fifth-place, 162.700-point finish in last weekend’s South Puget Sound League 4A sub-dis-trict meet at Mount Rainier High School.
Mount Rainier was first with 173.575 points, with Thomas Jefferson snaring second with 172.375 points. Emerald Ridge and Todd Beamer were third and fourth with 171.700 and 169.350 points, respectively.
Senior Latia Coburn led Auburn Riverside with her 13th-place, all-around fin-ish with 34.450 points. Co-
burn was fourth in the bars with an 8.550 performance and ninth on the floor with a 9.425 score.
Teammate Madison Miller was 20th all-around with 33.575 points.
Kylie Urban and Danielle Robinson finished 37th and 38th, with scores of 31.400 and 31.325, respectively. The Ravens’ Sarah Mur-gittroyd was 40th with a 31.200 score, and Libby Sakai and Casey Kaku also contributed on individual events.
Mount Rainier’s Baylee Hamilton was the all-around champion with 37.375 points.
Auburn Mountainview punched its ticket to dis-trict with a second-place 160.525 finish in the 3A meet.
Rival Enumclaw was first
(172.725).Lions senior Sara Fiksdal
was fifth in the all-around with a 33.750 score. Fiksdal was second on the beam with an 8.875 and fourth on the vault with an 8.575. She was fifth on the bars with a 7.250.
Hannah Houck was sev-enth in the all-around with a 33.100, and teammate Cassie Hunt was 10th place with 32.575 points.
Katie Hayward and Kelly Watrous finished 17th and 18th for Auburn Moun-tainview, with 30.150 and 29.875 points, respectively.
Lauren Brudvik, Delaney Ralph and Emily Morgan also contributed in indi-vidual events.
Enumclaw’s Olivia Ban-nerot won the all-around competition with 36.900 points.
Also qualifying for the 4A district meet were Auburn gymnasts Bailie Davis – ninth on floor with an 8.875 – and Michaela Zerr – sixth on beam with an 8.500.
The 3A district competi-tion begins at 9:30 a.m. with the top-two teams moving on to state. Individ-ually, the top-12 finishers in each event and the top-four all-around finishers will move on to state.
The 4A competition starts at 4:10 p.m. One team, the top-seven indi-viduals in each event and the top-two all-around gymnasts will move on to the state meet.
The state champion-ships are Feb. 17-18 at the Tacoma Dome Exhibition Center.
auburn area gymnasts move on to district meets
improve as we move into the post season is owed to Alonzo and Sansom, two outstanding captains who went to the (Tacoma) Dome for the Mat Classic in 2011,” he said. “All season I have watched these two seniors face adversity with courage, grow from setbacks, and dig deep to train even harder when things seem impos-sible. The underclassmen on the team see this, too, and it has become the team culture.”
Tahoma finished first in the team competition with 475.5 points and eight indi-vidual class winners.
Auburn Riverside finished fifth with 159 points.
The Ravens advanced four wrestlers to district behind senior Eduard Yakimchuk, who finished fourth at 132, junior Keaton Dalfrey, who snared fourth at 138, senior Nate Mead, who placed third at 145, and sophomore Larkin Williams, who took second at 285.
The WCD III District meet gets under way at 10 a.m. Saturday.
The top four finishers in each weight class qualify for the Feb. 17-18 Mat Classic XXIV at the Tacoma Dome.
aLso: The Auburn girls also fared well at sub-regionals, senior Katrynia Todd leading the way with a league title at 137 pounds. Todd, a state champion at 140 last year, defeated Todd Beamer’s Vanessa Dixon with a pin at 5 minutes, 13 seconds in the title match. Teammate Anel Nurzan-hov was third at 100 and sophomore Hana Mizoguchi
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3A regionals with Dakota Wier (285), Alex Harris (195), Erik English (152) and David Boone (132) earning spots. The re-gional meet at Bonney Lake High School begins at 4 p.m. Friday and continues at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
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