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Body found tied to bloody clues in AuburnBY MARK KLAAS

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Authorities said a body found at a Puyallup home Monday evening may be that of a man whose blood and bone fragments were discovered off Peasley Can-yon Drive, just inside Auburn city limits, on Aug. 13.

Evidence suggests the body is that of 30-year-old Brandon Zomalt of Puyallup, said Pierce County Sheriff ’s spokesman Ed Troyer.

Pierce County deputies responding to a home in the 13000 block of Mili-tary Road E. for a welfare check Monday night found a badly decomposed body inside.

“There was flooring, and carpet and items missing in the house that match what was recovered up in Auburn,” Troyer said.

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Owner earns incentives, cost efficiency with moveBY ROBERT WHALE

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When Bruce Alverson was in the process of building the Sun Break Café restaurant 15 years ago on A Street Southwest, he

had his contractor pitch the south-facing roof at a 30-degree angle.

To allow solar panels to be installed there someday, he explained, when the technology had advanced.

Last Thursday, Alverson’s “someday” rose over the hori-zon, bright and sunny, as work-

ers began installing the first of what will be 37 solar panels.

“This solar business is where it’s at,” Alverson said. “All the people are green, green is beautiful now, and solar is very green. So I want to attract all

Workers from Forecast Solar install solar panels atop the Sun Break Café on Tuesday.ROBERT WHALE, Auburn Reporter

Sun Break beams with solar power

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City to follow state’s lead on marijuana requirementsBY ROBERT WHALE

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Auburn’s leaders Tuesday night chose to meet the challenge of marijuana businesses in the city by adopting locally enforceable state marijuana business licensing requirements and keeping the City out of any regulatory or permitting roles.

Also, the City decided to allow the moratorium on retail sales, permitting and manufacturing of marijuana in Auburn that’s been in effect for a year to expire next Tues-day, five days after the ordinance is published.

While Tuesday’s action clears the way for two state allotted retail operations and processing and manufacturing operations to set up shop in Auburn, it was clear that City Council members and the mayor harbor misgivings about I-502. Washington voters approved the initiative in November 2012 by a comfortable margin, legalizing recreational marijuana throughout the state.

What city leaders find particu-larly galling is that tax revenues generated by local marijuana sales

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Breaking ground on the Valentine Avenue project in Pacific are, from left: Rick Maurstad (ICON), Pacific Mayor Leanne Guier; Pacific City Councilmembers Clint Steiger and John Jones; Ted Hill, Sumner city engineer; and Sumner City Councilmember Kathy Hayden. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

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those beautiful green people.”

Alverson explained why going solar makes such excellent financial sense.

To encourage solar devel-opment, Alverson said, the state of Washington will pay him 54 cents per kilowatt hour to produce electric-ity. They don’t care what he

does with it, he said, only that he produces it.

“They’ll put a produc-tion meter on to record everything that comes off the roof,” Alverson said. “Fifty-four cents a kilowatt hour – that’s 237 watts per panel, 9,900 watts of power – is roughly six times what we pay Puget Sound Energy. The state’ll pay that till June of 2020. So that is roughly

$5,000 they’ll pay me to use solar.”

Plus, he said, the federal government has promised to give him a 30-percent tax credit against his income taxes.

What’s more, if he uses solar panels and convertors that are developed in the state of Washington, there’ll be no sales tax.

“In my case, the system is

$40,000, so that’s a savings of about $3,500 in sales tax,” Alverson said.

Plus, he said, Puget Sound Energy plans to install what’s called a grid tie meter. The upshot is that on the days when Sun Break produces more than it uses, for example on Mondays when the res-taurant’s closed, the meter will spin backward. And that night, when the restaurant’s

not using any solar energy, Alverson said, he gets to bring that energy back in free.

“It’s a win win for every-body,” Alverson said. “Plus, I use about $900 worth of electricity every month, and I should be able to generate a good percentage on an annual basis. So my payout is about 4½ years. All this is available through residential, too. We’ll recover all the heat given off by our air conditioning units, our refrigeration units and our ice machine. So, by using solar power to run the com-pressors for our refrigeration system and recovering that heat for our hot water, we will eventually become almost energy neutral.”

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do, he said, has been testing the panels and has discov-ered that they should last through an 80-year cycle.

Alverson said he had been interested in solar energy for years, but the technology that actually makes it fea-sible was developed only in the last three to four years, and incentives are just now coming on line.

Two months ago, Alver-son sat in on seminars about solar energy at an energy fair put on by Mother Earth News at the Washington State Fairgrounds,

“I was on my way,” Alver-son said. “Oh, boy!”

The work was to have been done by Wednesday.

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BY SHAWN SKAGER

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It was the day Pacific Coun-cilmember Clint Steiger feared might never come.

Yet this past week, dignitar-ies from the cities of Pacific and Sumner actually took up shovels and pitched ceremonial dirt, offi-cially breaking ground on the Val-entine Avenue Southeast/136th Avenue East project and clearing the way for construction to widen and improve the heavily-used arterial shared by both communi-ties’ commercial sections.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Steiger said. “With these two projects – Pacific is also widening the intersecting Stewart Road – we can improve our commercial area.”

More than a decade in the works, the $12.4 million project will widen the street – a mile-and-a-half two-lane road heavily used by eighteen wheelers – to three lanes, with a center turn lane.

“It’ll make it easier for people trying to get out of their places or trying to make a left hand turn,” Steiger said. “It will be a 100 per-cent improvement.”

The improvements are to add

sidewalks and a bike lane in the one-third of the road inside Sumner city limits and a pedes-trian and bicycle trail in Pacific’s two-thirds.

If not for the efforts of Steiger, fellow Pacific Councilmen John Jones and others, however, the project would likely have been scuttled. According to Steiger, Sumner’s City Council had been days away from pulling out of the project because of the bumbling

and interference of former Pacific Mayor Cy Sun.

In a little more than a year in office, Sun – who was recalled by voters in July of 2013 – managed to botch the handling of the job to such a degree that he put funding at risk, including a crucial grant for more than $4 million from the Community Economic Redevel-opment Board (CERB).

Having taken office as a write-in candidate, Sun im-

mediately seized control of the City’s road projects, including the Valentine/136th project and the Stewart Road improvement.

“We kept asking him about the project and would never get any response at all,” Steiger said. “One day I decided to make some phone calls. So I called Sumner and talked to (City Engineer) Mike Dahlem down there. He suggested that I get a hold of the Mayor (David Enslow).”

That conversation with Enslow revealed the worst, Steiger said.

“I found out that … they had made up their mind to scrap the project (at their next council meeting), and they were going to vote to back out,” he said. “And they were going to sue the City (Pacific) for non performance, which would have cost about $500,000.”

Even worse was that Sun knew about the impending pull-out and possible law suit.

“We were in the dark. They had informed Cy of this, but he never told anybody,” Steiger said. “The only thing he told Sumner was ‘go ahead and try, you can’t do that,’ or some smartass-type response. He and Mayor Enslow couldn’t communicate at all.”

Steiger and Jones soon got to-gether to convince Mayor Enslow and the City of Sumner to delay abandoning the project.

“(Enslow) said he would talk to his people and give us a little time to get our feet on the ground and do what we could to try and save the project,” Steiger said. “He said he would help us and make his legal people available to us.”

After parleying with Sumner’s legal staff, Steiger and Jones re-ceived advice on how to take the project out of Sun’s hands and put it in the council’s.

“As a matter of fact, they as-sisted us in drawing up all the necessary paperwork to do this,” Steiger said. “This took us about a month or so to get it out of the mayor’s hands.”

Once the project was again un-der the council’s control, Steiger said, they realized that because of Sun’s decimation of city staff, which had left the City without a public works director, Pacific simply didn’t have the manpower to oversee the multi-million dol-lar project.

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Students, above, and staff embraced the new Auburn High School, which officially opened for classes Wednesday. The voter-approved, $110 million, three-story, red brick structure on East Main Street replaces the 64-year-old building on 4th Street Northeast.

“This building is gorgeous, I don’t even know where to start,” said AHS Principal Richard Zimmerman. “We’re completely wireless in the building. We’re the most technologically advanced building in the state right now because of the facilities, the technology involved. It’s going to be a great place for kids.”

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are to go to state coffers while the cities are left to deal with any fallout.

“It is an unfunded mandate that comes from the people, but there is no additional funding,” said Mayor Nancy Backus. “And just because we haven’t had a retail presence in the City of Auburn doesn’t mean we aren’t experiencing crime or additional DUIs.”

At the same time, Backus lauded city officials who have worked for a year and a half on the issue.

“The City Council took a great deal of time, the planning commission took a great deal of time. But surprisingly, during the workshops and the public hearing there were no com-ments against, and it was very lightly attended. It is what it is,” Backus said.

By adding to the City Code the requirement that marijuana businesses com-ply with state regulations the ordinance becomes enforceable by the City.

Failing to meet state re-quirements would constitute violations under City code, even though the City would not be the licensing agency.

City Attorney Dan Heid noted that the City Council made some adjustments to the ordinance before pass-ing it.

“The definition of state law was tweaked a little bitty bit, in terms of which state law was plugged in and the definition of can-nabis,” Heid said. “The reason for that is that there are hybrids that might have fallen through the cracks if you are too specific. In that

regard, it makes you won-der about the federal laws: are they too specific?”

In Auburn, 54 percent of the voters said yes to I-502. Eighty percent of Auburn’s 61 precincts voted yes to I-502, a mere 12 said no.

In July 2013, the state used a lottery to grant two retail recreational mari-juana businesses authori-zation to open in Auburn along with producers and processors.

To buy the City and plan-ning commission time to study and address potential challenges posed by recre-ational marijuana businesses, the City Council on Sept. 16 2013 slapped a one-year-long moratorium on the manu-facturing, processing and sale of recreational marijuana within city limits.

Although the City Coun-cil presented the Planning Commission with three op-tions, the commission soon dropped the third option from consideration because of the legal risks it entailed. Here were those options:

• Option 1: outright banning the processing, producing and sale of rec-reational marijuana inside City limits;

• Option 2: adopting the state’s enforcement tools but not adding any of Auburn’s own;

• Option 3: would have added City regulations via licensing or additional zon-ing regulations.

The Planning Commission hosted a public workshop in May and a public hearing in the first week of August. Recently, it finished its work by recommending that the City Council adopt Option 2, which it did Tuesday night.

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Former Pacific Mayor Rich Hildreth wanted to clear his name.

Now, more than 2½ years after Hildreth left of-fice, City officials conceded that allegations of corrup-tion against Hildreth by his successor, Cy Sun, were unfounded.

Mayor Leanne Guier released those findings in an official City letter.

“It is the conclusion of the City of Pacific, as sup-ported by the Washington

State Auditor’s office and any and all investigations on this matter, that the allegations of corruption are without merit,” Guier wrote.

Among the specific charges were Hildreth’s alleged misuse of a City credit card, the existence of slush funds, missing receipts, misuse of City property and collusion to cover up abuses. The Auditor’s office investigated and found the allegations baseless.

City audits during Hildreth’s eight years of office found no evidence of fraud, misuse of funds or impropri-eties, Guier said.

The King County Prosecutor’s Office also reviewed the

case and declined to pros-ecute, concluding that the investigation “did not find that there was evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was an intent to deprive the City of these funds, which is an essential element of the

crime of theft.”Hildreth is ready to put

the matter behind him.“My goal has always

been to clear my name, not for financial gain,” Hildreth said. “Although these allegations clearly damaged my reputation, I see no reason to punish the citizens for the ac-tions of a few individuals. It is my hope that we can all put these sad days behind us and everyone move forward.”

Sun, a write-in candi-date and Korean War vet-eran, unseated Hildreth in the 2011 election. He claimed corruption in City Hall under Hildreth’s watch. Hildreth said such claims were “disappoint-

ing,” part of Sun’s negative campaigning and “decep-tion of our citizens.”

Hildreth’s political oppo-nents continued to express their claims up to and through election day.

“A problem we have in our election laws allows candidates to knowingly spout mistruths without legal recourse,” Hildreth said. “The problem was Cy Sun continued making those false claims even after taking office.”

Sun, whose 18-month stint as mayor was marked by upheaval and contro-versy, was removed from office. About 65 percent of residents voted to recall Sun from office before the end of his term in June 2013.

Hildreth, meanwhile, has moved on. After leav-ing office, he returned to school to earn a degree in emergency and disaster management. He was elected vice president of American Military Uni-versity’s Student Chapter of the International As-sociation of Emergency Managers.

A union electrician for more than 20 years, Hil-dreth is pursuing a career in emergency manage-ment.

Former Pacific mayor officially cleared of ‘corruption’ allegations

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Confirmation of the body’s identity is pending from the Pierce County Medical Examiner. No sus-pects have been identified, authorities said.

Auburn Police reported last Friday that blood found at a crime scene along Pea-sley Canyon Drive nearly three weeks ago belonged to Zomalt.

The Washington State Patrol crime lab conducted DNA tests on the blood found on flooring and clothing items discovered by an off-duty federal agent at the scene, near West Val-ley Highway.

The DNA profile was run through the State Com-bined DNA Index System, matching it to Zomalt’s blood.

No other profile has come back so far from the crime lab and investigation, authorities said.

Bone fragments also were

found in the debris at the Auburn crime scene, according to Auburn Po-lice Cmdr. Mike Hirman, suggesting a homicide.

“(The) injury was so severe that not only was there lots of blood, but portions of (the victim’s) bones were there as well,” Hirman said. “I can’t even speculate on how the injury was caused.”

Zomalt, police said, has ties to Puyallup and surrounding areas based on his criminal records.

According to records, Zomalt has a criminal his-tory in Puyallup and Pierce County, with 11 arrests in-volving harassment, threats to kill, assault in the first degree, reckless driving, ob-struction of a law enforce-ment officer, resisting arrest and negligent driving.

On the afternoon of Aug. 13, an off-duty agent of the Federal Protective Service driving down Pea-sley Canyon Road noticed

a fire in the woods and stopped with his extin-guisher. The agent spotted a man burning blood-soaked carpeting, towels and floor-ing along the roadside.

Police said the agent saw a man and a dark SUV were seen next to the carpeting. When the man saw the agent, he jumped in the SUV and fled. The officer tried to follow the man but he got away.

The suspect seen fleeing

in the SUV is described as possibly a mixed race man, in his late 20s to early 30s, between 5-foot-8 and 5-foot-10, with a thin build and short dark hair.

Police are asking the public for help identifying associates of Zomalt in hope of determining his activities leading up to Aug. 13.

The Auburn Police tip line is 253-288-7403.

– Staff writer Robert Whale contributed to this report.

This week’s…

Fire & Rescue Blotter

Auburn Police responded to the fol-lowing calls for services, among many others, between Aug. 28 and Sept. 1:

Aug. 28Theft: Overnight, 4810 D St. NW. Overnight, a thief or thieves stole a semi tractor worth a pile of undis-closed money.Theft: Overnight, 2020 B St. NW. Overnight, a thief or thieves stole a trailer.Chainsaw thief: Overnight, 11000 block of Southeast 315th Street. Somebody swiped a man’s Husqvarna chainsaw from his vehicle sometime between Aug. 7 and 28.Theft: Overnight, 4810 D St. NW. Thieves stole a semi tractor. Theft: Overnight, 4810 D St. NW. As above, thieves acting in the dead of night stole a semi tractor.Theft: 2 p.m., 1231 Auburn Way N. A male stole a charging cable, a USB

cable and a can of pork and beans from an unnamed business in the Auburn North Shopping Center, then fled and got away.

Agency assist: 7:34 p.m., R Street Southeast. Police arrested a boy on a felony warrant for second-degree attempted child molestation.

Aug. 31Going where he shouldn’t have: 10:07 p.m., 2117 Auburn Way S. Police arrested a dude for trespassing at the Muckleshoot Casino and for having a warrant, a truly outstanding warrant, out and about with his name stuck all over it.

Sept. 1Controlled substance: 12:27 p.m., 2100 block of I Street Northeast. Police arrested a guy on a warrant, and when they brought him to the SCORE jail, guards there found an Exacto knife and 3.3 grams of methamphetamine in his sock.

Robbery: 1:16 p.m., 12500 SE 312th St. While a woman was walking home from a grocery stole, a kid stole her purse and ran off with it.

The Valley Regional Fire Authority responded to 185 requests for service between Aug. 25 and 31, among them the following:

Aug. 25Aid call: 6:55 p.m., (Pacific). Firefight-ers helped a woman afflicted with back pain then a private ambulance trans-ported her to Valley Medical Center (VMC) for more evaluation.

Aug. 26 Aid call: 4:53 p.m., (Algona). After firefighters had treated a woman suf-fering from abdominal pain, a private ambulance transported her to Valley Medical Center in Renton.

Aug. 27 Aid call: 6 p.m., (Lakeland Hills). After firefighters had treated a toddler’s dog bite injuries, his father took him to urgent care for additional treatment.

Aug. 28Car vs. pedestrian: 9:55 p.m., (Auburn). After firefighters and King County Medic One paramedics had helped a man who’d been hit by a vehicle on Highway 18, King County Medic One transported him to VMC.

Aug. 29Aid call: 10:45 a.m., (Lakeland Hills). While he was zipping down a hill on his skateboard, without a helmet, a young man fell, sustaining a cut to the back of his head and multiple abrasions. A private ambu-lance transported him to MultiCare Auburn Medical Center (MAMC) for additional treatment.

Aug. 30Aid call: 3:15 p.m., (North Auburn). After firefighters had treated a woman who had fainted, a friend transported her to ARMC.

Aug. 31Aid call: 12:53 p.m., (Auburn). After firefighters had evaluated a man with abdominal pain, a private ambulance motored him off to MAMC.

THE FBI says law enforcement officers are looking for a man they believe recently robbed three Puget Sound-area banks. In one case, authorities say, the robber changed clothes between two robberies in a single hour on Aug. 18. Those two robberies hit a Chase Bank branch in Auburn and a Bank of America branch in Kent. Investigators say they believe the man may also have robbed a bank on Aug. 16 in Lakewood, and that he threatened tellers during the robberies.

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Our state’s super wealthy social changers are at it again.

Two years after their money helped make charter schools possible, the Ballmers, the Gateses and the Nick Hanauers are using some of their loose millions to try to tighten gun laws in Washington.

They’ve made six- and seven-digit

contributions to the cam-paign for Initiative 594, the measure on the November ballot that would expand the state’s background check law to cover most gun sales conducted at gun shows and online.

Their checks went to the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility whose strategists will, sometime after Labor Day, start

spending the dough on television commercials claiming wider use of background checks will bolster public safety without infringing on anyone’s Second Amendment rights.

The alliance can afford to wait because it is already getting a boost from a million-dollar ad campaign paid for by its nonprofit alter ego, the Center for Gun Responsibility.

Since Aug. 8, the center has been running dozens of 30-second com-

mercials as part of an “education” campaign dubbed “Background Checks Make A Difference.” The ef-fort is set to end Friday.

The ads stress the value of background checks for enhancing public safety but never mention the ballot measure that its political self is promoting. What’s nice about this campaign finance nuance is it also allows the Center for Gun Respon-sibility to keep secret the source of its money.

Center spokeswoman Molly Boya-jian noted in an email that the

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Regarding: “Failed schools can be fixed, but are we up to the task”, Reporter).

Well, Craig Groshart almost got it right in his Aug. 29 com-mentary. Like most who write about our schools, however, he showed outright cowardice in confronting the main cancer limiting the ability of kids to learn.

The basic problem is not that insufficient money is be-ing passed along by the state for education. The problem is that schools, alone in our soci-ety, do not want us or anyone else to evaluate how well they are doing their job.

Anyone who works for a living, in any vocation or pro-fession, is evaluated – usually annually – on how well they are meeting the objectives of their job. Are they meeting production goals for the num-ber of widgets that need to be

cranked out hourly or daily? Are they meeting sales goals? Are they producing the needed number of inches of copy their newspaper needs to separate the advertising?

The truth for almost all of us is that our continuing employ-ment depends on meeting the goals and expectations of our job.

The exception is the public

school system.Teachers do not want to be

evaluated on how well they are meeting the objectives of their job – namely the success of educating the children with whom they work. They argue that it’s not fair to them to apply the same standard to their work that you and I have applied to us. They say that there too many other factors … dysfunctional homes, eco-nomic disparity, the allure of electronic entertainment that affect a child’s ability to learn.

We all can say the same thing about our job perfor-mances, I suppose, because we all have full lives that put de-mands on us that might impair or work performance. Many of us have marital discord, health issues, or the demands of an aging parent that impact our job productivity.

But our bosses continue to evaluate our effectiveness nevertheless … and so they should.

Progress abounds as we welcome a new school year

The start of the school year is always an exciting time of renewal and opportunity.

As we begin the 2014-2015 school year, the Auburn School District continues an ambitious program for improving student learning through the ASD Strategic Plan 2.0, which lays out a plan for increased stu-dent achievement, family engagement and resource alignment for career and college success for all students.

The district is committed to the growth of your student as learner and citizen. Last year, we provided more than two million parent communications in multiple languages using

electronic messaging, family access, e-news, websites and social media.

With the successful passage of the Technol-ogy Capital Levy and the progress of a new Auburn High Phase I, as well as

continued completion of the Capital Im-provement Levy, we are able to provide our students with world-class learning systems and facilities.

We have reason to celebrate the success of student learning. Over the last four years, our schools have received 52 Washington Achievement Awards recognizing the top 10 percent in performance and progress in the state. This past year, all three of our compre-hensive high schools received Washington State Academic Achievement Awards. The number of students in Advanced Placement courses increased from 2,500 to 4,800 during the last two years. More than 5,000 students took the Readi-Step, Pre-SAT and SAT exams last year in preparation for college opportu-nities.

The district also was recognized by the CCER Road Map Project for the “Collective Impact Award” for building a system to close gaps and support young learners. With the implementation of full-day kindergarten at every elementary school, we are able to

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The NRA did contribute $25,000 to its PAC in July, then spent most of it on staff, probably to have them survey the landscape. They couldn’t have liked what they discovered.

An Elway Poll in July found 70 percent of voters – many of them in the vote-rich Pugetopolis – “inclined” to back Initiative 594. Three months earlier, in April, an Elway Poll found the level of support at 72 percent.

Things could turn quickly. They did in 1995 when vot-ers initially embraced a gun control-type measure then rejected it. Of late the state’s electorate has been in the mood for reshaping society in ways the government won’t. They’ve privatized

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Political reporter Jerry Corn-field’s blog, The Petri Dish, is at www.heraldnet.com. Contact him at 360-352-8623; [email protected] and on Twitter at @dospueblos.

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Only teachers and the system they help to create do not take seriously the evaluation of job performance.

Certainly, the teacher unions carry too much clout in the ques-tion of evaluations, but the school districts share the blame. Admin-istrators – many of them former teachers themselves – do little to support the public’s demand for accountability in school and teacher job performance.

Who among us would not embrace the chance to set and evaluate our own job performance standards? It’s a little like telling a child she can set her own bed time, without the fear of a price to be paid for the exhaustion they would feel the next day after get-ting insufficient rest.

School leaders are putting a lot of energy and paid time – paid for by us, of course – into spin con-trol over the “failed school” letters that will soon be arriving at our homes. They want us to under-stand that their schools, despite failing to meet measurable federal standards, are really not failing.

Yes, they are.Teaching, like child rearing, is

a really hard job. I know: we’ve had three kids, all educated in public schools. We know that teachers are fairly well paid, have always enjoyed superior benefits, and have job security. Yet they insist the key to solving the school failure problem is to simply give them more money.

Let’s try a new approach. Clearly spell out for every teacher the goal of their job for the year. Just like the salesman who has to meet his quota or the factory worker who needs to produce a minimum number of widgets, teachers need to have a goal. They need to educate the 30 or so kids before them every day, and help them become productive and

responsible adults. If there are outside influences

that make the job harder, that can be noted. They can be excused, perhaps, if the schools have taken aggressive steps – like expelling bullies and ordering underper-forming kids into mandatory after-school study halls – to solve the problems.

Until schools, districts and teachers embrace the idea that, like it or not, they will be held accountable for how well they do their work, I will never vote for another school levy or bond as long as I live.

Educators are no better than the rest of us. They need to be ready to be evaluated on how well they do their jobs, and then required to meet reasonable standards that are set for them by their employer – you and me.– Steve Krueger

CorrectionCraig Groshart wrote the com-

mentary on failed schools in the Aug. 29 edition. The Reporter credited the wrong columnist in the caption.

Why make official language mandatory?

Regarding “Official language policy needed to unite Washing-tonians”, Reporter, Aug. 29:

I admire Mauro Mujica’s ability to learn the language when he came to this country. My good friends of 50 years were Sephardic Jews who immigrated from the Isle of Rhodes and mostly spoke Spanish.

The woman I first met and shared much time with said her family depended on her, as she went to

school and was proficient in Eng-lish. Since her parents didn’t have the opportunity to attend school, my friend was their primary resource.

I really don’t like the idea of a mandatory official language. But unless families are allowed to attend classrooms with their chil-dren, it seems a difficult concept to address.

I often wonder if I had to go to a non-English-speaking country, for whatever reason, got off the plane and was expected to know how to communicate to others and it was mandatory. If their of-ficial language was totally new to me, how I would survive?

I work as a temporary worker during elections, and most of the silliness done to ballots is from people who were lucky enough to be born and raised here. I would much rather that people who may have a primary language differ-ent than ours but are grateful for the opportunity to vote, be able to understand fully what they are voting on with whatever is helpful to them.

Why build walls, when gates are more helpful?– CJ Baker

Reporter needs to get it right

It’s clear that several organi-zations got the history of John Alberti wrong and it’s because we want to believe the stories of battlefield glory, and honor “for-gotten” veterans.

Unfortunately there are thou-sands of these phonies out there wearing medals and claiming honors they never earned.

There is no question the American Legion and Tahoma National Cemetery should have

spent five minutes online looking up this obviously flawed narrative. Any thinking veteran would have known the history didn’t match the “facts” on Alberti’s DD214. The document issued to all mem-bers of the service when they end their enlistment. The wild claims of a Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, the Bronze Star Medal and five (yep … count ‘em … five) Purple Hearts before the war in Viet-nam actually started should have pegged the bovine scat meter.

I read two lines of that story and knew it was false. It seems so did hundreds of other veterans from the online posts. It should have raised the suspicions of any first-year journalism student, too. Especially someone associated with the Auburn Reporter, which has been burned at least twice be-fore by phony stories of long ago valor and present-day PTSD.

The staff at the Reporter was educated on how to spot this phenomena on more than one occasion and even offered help in vetting stories like this. Previously, they were fooled by a phony who wrote a book about his “secret” exploits after being recruited by the CIA to be a sniper. The CIA apparently recruits from the ranks of disgruntled E-1 aircraft mechanics because that’s what this fellas real DD-214 showed he was. He claimed to have been abused by his superiors and tortured by those same people. That story didn’t pass the smell test, either. He had been outed by an organi-zation a few years earlier, and five minutes of research would have shown that.

In another story, the Reporter did a feature on a supposed combat veteran (suffering from PTSD of course) who claimed he had been kicked out of a Salva-tion Army shelter during the

Thanksgiving holiday. His story was complete fabrication as his age, unit and supposed combat experience didn’t add up. Turns out he was an alcoholic who didn’t follow the Salvation Army’s rules about no drinking in their shelter. But the best NGO relief agency on the planet had been smeared and no apology from the paper was forthcoming.

I gave the Reporter several sites and books written about what is now codified in federal law as “Stolen Valor.” There is no excuse for them not doing what is mandatory for any newspaper, no matter the size of the staff. Especially when they were offered assistance.

The Reporter needs to apolo-gize to its readers in general and veterans specifically for not doing even the most basic of story verifi-cation. Their recent article admit-ting to being duped is not enough. It’s another cowardly deflection of responsibility for what is in their publication.

If you’re going to print stories that try to honor veterans I know, your readers would be thrilled. But as journalists you owe us a professional effort to get it right. It matters. Especially for the memory of real heroes who have defended your right to publish and distribute a newspaper. They guaranteed it with their blood and you owe them your best effort.– Tom Marino

Editor’s note: The Reporter regrets the “stolen valor” story. We followed with a retraction (“Reports: Phony Navy SEAL bur-ied with military honors”, Aug. 1) and have apologized to inquiring veterans throughout the country. We extend our apologies to our veterans community.

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Auburn International Farmers Market: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sundays, through Sept. 21, Auburn Transit Station Plaza, 23 A St. SW, Auburn. Featuring fresh, Washington grown fruits and vegetables, a variety of foods, bakery products and hand-crafted items. Special events are planned on select Sundays. Free parking in the Sound Transit parking garage. For more information, visit www.auburnfarmersmarket.org.

Fourth annual Auburn Art Walk and Wine Tasting: 5-9 p.m. Sept. 5, down-town Auburn. Local artists’ work on display and for sale at businesses. Wine tasting tickets can be purchased in advance for $15, $20 the day of event. Tickets include five tastes and a custom wine glass. For pre-sale tickets and more information, visit www.auburndt.org/events/

Washington State Fair: Sept. 5-21, 110 Ninth Ave., SW, Puyallup. Gate hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 9 a.m.- 10 p.m. Sunday. Concerts, rides, food, vendors, rodeo, animal exhibits, art and culture, interactive fun, special attractions. Admission: $12.50 adults; $9 students (ages 6-18) and seniors (62 and older); kids 5 and under free. Pre-fair discounts available online through Sept. 4. Parking: $10 Monday-Friday; $12 Saturday, Sunday. For more information: www.thefair.com or 24-hour hotline at 253-841-5045

Celebration of the Arts, Literary and Visual: 6:30-8;30 p.m., Sept. 11, Council Chambers, City Hall, 25 W. Main St. Auburn. Opening remarks at 7 p.m. The public is invited to celebrate the work of Auburn Poet Laureate Dick Brugger over the course of the past three years and enjoy an opening reception for his daughter, Jessie Brugger, whose artwork will be on display in the City Hall Gallery during September. For more information, go to www.auburn-wa.gov/arts or call 253-931-3043.

Federal Way Challenge 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament: 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. Sept. 13, Town Square Park, 31620 20th Ave. S., Federal Way. Entry fee: $50 per team. Must be paid and registered by Sept. 9. Each player receives a T-shirt. Each team guaranteed at least three games. Mail check or money order to: Steve Turcotte, 1911 SW Campus Drive, Box 695, Federal Way, WA, 98023. For more information, call 206-240-9029.

Hops & Crops Brew Festival: noon-6 p.m. Sept. 13, Mary Olson Farm, 28728 Green River Road. The 21-and-up

festival features craft beers, live music performances and a craft and farmer’s marketplace. Proceeds support educational programming at the farm. The Grizzled Mighty, Hot Damn Scandal, and The Cot-tonwood Cutups & Jessica Lynne scheduled to perform. Auburn Chevrolet sponsors the event. Tickets: $15 pre-sale, $20 at the gate. Taster admission includes a mug and five tokens. A designated driver and no taste admission is $10. Purchase tickets at wrv-museum.org/hopsandcrops.html

Ladies & Lil Gents: 6-8:30 p.m. Sept. 27, Les Gove Gymnasium, 910 Ninth St. SE, Auburn. Mother-son event coordi-nated by the Auburn Parks, Arts & Recre-ation Department. Fun, new “date night” option for moms and their little boys, 3-8 years of age. DJ will spin lively party music and dance tunes. Lowe’s of Auburn presents a hands-on wood craft project. Roving Reptiles is an interactive show featuring nature’s most fascinating creepy crawlies. Included in the ticket price is a professional 5-by-7 photo and light refreshments and dessert. Tickets: $25 couple, $8 for ad-ditional siblings (non-resident fees apply). Tickets are limited and pre-registration is recommended. To purchase tickets, visit the Parks, Arts & Recreation Office call 253-931-3043.

BenefitsScramble for Safe Families Charity Golf Tournament: 1:30 p.m. Sept. 6, Washington National Golf Club, 14430 SE Husky Way, Auburn. Events include a four-person scramble, a hole-in-one contest (win a car), a putting contest, banquet, silent auction, raffles and awards. Proceeds benefit the Jennifer Beach Foundation, which provides education, advocacy and assistance to the community addressing issues related to child abuse and domestic violence. Entry fee: $130 for individuals or $520 for four-person team. For more infor-mation on the tournament or to download a registration form, make a donation or to be a sponsor, please call 253-833-5366 or visit www.jnbfoundation.org.

Auburn Rotary Earl Averill Invitation-al Golf Tournament: 1:30 p.m. Sept. 19, Washington National Golf Club, 14330 SE Husky Way, Auburn. Includes: putting con-test;$2,000 long putt contest; hole-in-one; roll the dice; pick your club; the super ticket scratch game. Proceeds benefit the Auburn Rotary Foundation, serving children and adults in Auburn and throughout the world. Scramble format. Cost: $125 per player. Register at www.auburnareawa.org

Strides 5K Fun Run Or Walk and Golden Mile: 9 a.m.-noon, Sept. 27, Foster Park, South 259th and 74th Avenue

South, where Interurban Trail meets the Green River Trail. Benefits Neighborhood House and KLC South Sudan Community Restoration Program. Registration begins at 8 a.m. Cost: varies by category and date from $20-$45. Pre-Register at www.strides5k.weebly.com or on Active.com.

7th annual Cure SMA Walk-n-Roll: 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 27, Auburn Game Farm Park, 3030 R St. SE, Auburn. Fun day at the park and help find a cure for SMA. Food truck, DJ, raffles, games, face painting and more. www.fsma.org or www.curesma.org.

Barktoberfest and Rover Romp: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 11, Roegner Park, 601 Oravetz Road SE, Auburn. 3K and 5K run and walk. Auburn Valley Humane Society’s annual fundraising event for the homeless and abandoned animals in the community. Pet owner/pet look-alike contest; best pet costume contest; prize basket drawings; vendors; entertainment; demonstrations and food. Register online at auburnval-leyhs.org. For pledge details and more information, call AVHS at 253-249-7849 or 253-209-3872, or email: [email protected].

“See Ya Later” Foundation banquet and auction: 5 p.m. Oct. 4, Emerald Downs, 2300 Emerald Downs Drive, Au-burn. Proceeds benefit SYL Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps families fraught by a medical crisis. Admission is $40 per person, if preregistered, and includes admission, dinner, dessert and a live and silent auction. Tickets are $50 at the door. Event seeks auction items and sponsors. For more information or to register, please visit www.SeeYaLater.org, or contact [email protected] (253-332-5144) or [email protected] (253-951-6491).

ReunionsAuburn High School Class of 1954: Sept. 12-13. Picnic: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sept. 12, Veterans Memorial Park, behind Auburn Memorial Stadium, 411 E St. NE. Cost: $10. Everything else provided. Tour of the new high school: 11 a.m. Sept. 13. Superintendent leads the tour. Program, buffet dinner: 1-7 p.m. Sept. 13, Emerald Downs, 2300 Emerald Downs Way. Cost: $55. For more information, contact Marilyn Polley Barnard, 253-927-2048.

Auburn High School Class of 1984: 5:30-11 p.m. Sept. 13, Green River Community College, Conference & Event Center, Cascade Room, 12401 SE 320th St., Auburn. Evening casual attire; no-host bar; photo booth; music by DJ Jeff Maas. Cost $84. For more information, contact Kirsten Richardson at [email protected] or 425-644-1044, ext. 473, or visit www.reunionswithclass.com. Also: No-Host Golf: 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Sept. 13, Auburn Municipal Golf Course, 29630 Green River Road SE.

HealthPuget Sound Blood Center drives: 1-3 p.m., 4-7 p.m. Sept. 15, LDS Church, gym, 625 M St. NE; 9-11 a.m., noon- 3 p.m. Sept. 15, Zones, Inc., 1102 15th St. SW. For more information, call 253-945-8667 or please visit www.psbc.org.

Mary Bridge Children’s Center for Childhood Safety: Car safety seat inspec-tion on the first Wednesday of each month at MultiCare Auburn Urgent Care, 202 Cross St. SE, Auburn. Please call 253-403-1417 to schedule an appointment.

Faith Rev. Akinori Imai Public Dharma Talk: 3-4:30 p.m. Sept. 5, White River Buddhist Temple, 3625 Auburn Way N. Buddhist Churches of America Center for Buddhist Education present Higashi Hong-wanji Minister, the Rev. Akinori Imai. www.wrbt.org.

Sunday School Carnival and Kickoff: 9:30 a.m. Sept. 7, Messiah Lutheran Church, 410 H St. NE, Auburn. Worship service at 10:45 a.m. and a carnival with food, fun and fellowship. Hot dogs, a bouncy house, games and face painting from noon to 2 p.m. in the church parking lot. For more information, contact the church office at 253-833-5280.

Clubs, programs Auburn Noon Lions: Meets Tuesdays, noon, at the Auburn Parks, Arts & Rec De-partment, Les Gove Park, 910 Ninth St. SE.

Rotary Club of Auburn: Meets noon, Wednesdays, Auburn Golf Course, banquet room, 29630 Green River Road SE. Upcom-ing programs: • Aug. 13, Dr. Breanna Peterson-toxicology lab; • Aug. 20, Cham-bers Bay Golf Club-2015 PGA Tournament. Guests are welcome. For more information, visit www.auburnrotary.org.

Auburn Morning Toastmasters: Meets every Thursday morning, 6:30-7:30, Auburn Chamber of Commerce, 108 S. Division, Suite B. Learn the fine art of communication and public speaking in a friendly supportive atmosphere. Visitors are welcome. For more information, call 253-735-1751 or visit www.toastmasters.org.

Network3No Networking: 5:30 p.m. Thursdays. 3No Networking is a casual weekly get-together set aside for members of the business community to drop in and get to know each other. The mixer rotates among Auburn venues: • First Thursday of the month – Oddfellas Pub & Eatery, 102 W. Main St.; • second Thursday – Auburn Wine & Caviar Company, 2402 A St. SE; • third Thursday – Station Bistro, 110 Second St. SW, Suite 125; • fourth Thursday – Zola’s Café, 402 E. Main St. Suite 120. The series is made possible by a partnership between IPZ No. 15 Auburn, the City of Auburn Office of Economic Development, Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce and the Auburn

Downtown Association. For more informa-tion, contact Doug Lein, IPZ administrator, at 253-804-3101.

Hope + Help Counseling Open House: Noon-5 p.m. Sept. 12, 230 Auburn Way S., Suite 1B. Full-service Washington State Certified Counseling Agency. Public invited to meet the staff and tour the facility. Finger food and beverages provided. Hope + Help is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday and Saturday by appoint-ment only. Please RSVP for the open house by Sept. 8 to Alicia Allen at 253-333-2328, ext. 1.

EntertainmentAUBURN AVENUE THEATERAuburn Avenue Theater, 10 Auburn Ave. Call Auburn Parks, Arts & Rec at 253-931-3043, Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday, 8 a.m.-noon, or online at www.brownpapertickets.com.Hell’s Belles, AC/DC Tribute: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 19. Hell’s Bells are dedicated AC/DC fanatics with mechanical precision and passionate fury that rock the music and the stage. Tickets: $20 regular; $18 students, seniors.

Comedy at the Ave: 7:30 p.m. Sept. 20. Three comedians, featuring headliner Paul Morrissey. Morrissey is known for his many TV appearances on “The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson”, and this year made an impressive debut on “The Late Show with David Letterman.” Ages 18 and over only. Tickets: $17 regular; $15 students, seniors.

“The Sound of Music”: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3,

4, 10, 11, 17, 18; 2 p.m. Oct. 5, 12, 19. Clas-sic story is brought to the stage, featuring local talented actors of the Auburn Com-munity Players. With innovative set design and voices that soar, the beloved musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein comes to life. Pre-sale tickets: $15 regular; $13 students, seniors ($20/$18 at the door).

AUBURN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA2014-15 Concert season: Performances at the Theater at Auburn Mountainview, 28900 124th Ave. SE, Auburn. ASO announces its 18th season of programs in its temporary home while the Auburn Performing Arts Center is being renovated. Concert lineup: • Welcome to Mountainview: 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11, 12; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 12. • A Very Merry Valentine: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14, 15; 2:30 p.m. Feb. 15. • A Grand Tour of Europe: 7:30 p.m. April 25, 26; 2:30 p.m. April 26. Season and single tickets available. Reserved season ticket seats $95 adults, $75 seniors. Reserved single ticket seats $34 adults, $27 seniors, $10 students. To purchase, call 253-887-7777 or purchase online at www.auburnsymphony.org.

ELSEWHERETwisted Tuesday’s First Class Comedy Showcase: 7-10 p.m. every second and fourth Tuesday, the Station Bistro, 110 2nd St. SW, No. 125, Auburn. Live local acts. Free admission, door prizes. TheComedian Lig’e BIC Productions. Hosted by Carl Foggey. Lineup: • Sept. 9, Marianne Reilly with special guests Shanni Williams, Meghan Flaherty, Mac Omber, Tommy Johnson; • Sept. 23, Susan Jones.

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BY MARJORIE GORDON

For the Auburn Reporter

What does a “pot of gold” look like?

To the hungry, it would be filled with food. To the thirsty, it would overflow with clean water. To the vision impaired, it would be filled with eyeglasses.

The Auburn Noon Lions Club received a “pot of gold” at its Aug. 26 meet-ing – 15 cardboard boxes filled with 2,500 pairs of eyeglasses.

King County Council-member Pete von Reich-bauer delivered the large collection in a pickup truck and presented them to King Lion Ed Butler and members.

When he heard about the large number of un-claimed eyeglasses lost on Metro buses, von Reich-bauer asked what became of them.

“When I was first elected to the County Council, I

asked Metro what hap-pened to the unclaimed eye glasses that are often left behind on their buses,” von Reichbauer said. “I was told that the unclaimed glasses were thrown away. Since then I have collected thousands of prescription and sunglasses for donation to South King County orga-nizations, helping families in need.”

Learning they are discarded annually, he determined to rescue and recycle them. He knew the Lions Clubs are equipped to process and distribute them to the needy locally and worldwide.

Years ago, Helen Keller challenged the Lions Club International to become “Knights for the Blind.” This became the primary focus of one of the world’s largest service clubs.

The gift of 2,500 pairs of glasses was immediately transferred to the Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center,

LERC, in Olympia. Each will become a miracle of vision to someone – a child to see the white-board, a student to read a book, a parent and grandparent to see grand-children.

The Lions Club is grateful for the compassionate stew-ardship of von Reichbauer, and extends its thanks to the anonymous donors.

The Auburn Noon Lions and King County Councilmember Pete von Reichbauer, middle, have teamed up to ensure that those who cannot afford costly prescription lenses can still have a quality pair of eye glasses.COURTESY PHOTO

Lions receive a ‘pot of gold’

“Trashed”: 6 p.m. Sept. 25, Auburn Riverside High School Theatre, 501 Oravetz Road. City of Auburn’s Solid Waste & Recy-cling Department presents free screening of the Auburn Sustainability Film Series. Trashed” is a groundbreaking documentary examining the crisis of trash, highlighting how garbage threatens our health and our environment. Light refreshments will be served; informational tables will be available and door prizes awarded. A panel discussion of local experts, including King County EcoConsumer Tom Watson, follows the movie. “Trashed” is a groundbreaking documentary examining the crisis of trash, highlighting how garbage threatens our health and environment. Some images may not be suitable for young children;

recommended for age 12 and over. No child care available. For more information, call 253-931-3047.

PoetryPoetry at The Station Bistro: 7-10 p.m., first Wednesdays of each month, Bistro, 110 Second St. SW, Suite 125, Au-burn. Poets featured at the open mic venue. Presented by The Station Bistro, the North-west Renaissance, Auburn Striped Water Poets. Open to poets of every age and skill level. • Sept. 10 program: Dennis Caswell, David D. Horowitz, Judith Skillman, Michael Spence. For more information, contact [email protected].

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only way they would work with us anymore was if we turned around and had the project headed by Sumner,” Steiger said. “The Council agreed, so that’s what hap-pened.”

“It was just an incredible combination of people who worked very, very fast to get this done,” he said. “Up un-til the end, Mayor Enslow was calling us up every day asking, ‘are you sure you’re going to be able to do this?’ He was as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof. They were looking at losing $500,000.”

Now in the hands of Sumner, nearly two years later the project is underway. Costs are expected to exceed $20 million all told, once right-of-way acquisitions and design work are factored in, according to Sumner As-sistant Public Works Director Ted Hill, who is in charge of

the project.“We’ve got funding

sources from all over,” Hill said. “Both of us have local improvement districts set up. We have Federal high-way money, we’ve got Ecol-ogy money. There is state Department of Commerce money. There are about six or seven sources, let alone our own utility money that’s going into from both jurisdictions. Knowing I’m charging the right thing to the right spot is going to be the big hurdle at this point.”

Hill urged commuters and anyone who uses the road to be patient.

“Any construction takes time and patience,” Hill said.

For Steiger, it’s just a joy to see the construction begin.

“I’m glad we saved this,” he said. “I was lucky – it wasn’t because I’m so intel-ligent this happened.”

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The popular Art Walk and Wine Tasting event re-turns to downtown Auburn on Friday for an evening brimming with fine wine, quality local artists and businesses.

From 5 to 9 p.m., the downtown will sparkle and shine as artists display and sell their works in the Main Street businesses set up as temporary galleries.

The event features artisans within west side businesses, from Rottles to the train tracks. Original handmade-quality paint-ings, mosaics and wearable art will be on display and for sale.

The Auburn Wine and Caviar Co. is coordinating the wine tastings, which will feature quality regional offerings. Participating

wineries also will have bottles available for sale in the temporary wine store, in the Auburn Downtown Association (ADA) office, at 222 E. Main St.

The event is free, but wine tasting tickets are $15 pre-sale and $20 at the event. Buyers get five one-ounce tastes and a custom wine glass.

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VOLUNTEER DRIVERS NEEDED: More volunteer drivers are needed throughout King County. If you have a reliable vehicle, clean driv-

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AUBURN TRAFFIC ADVISORY: Starting Sept. 8 through approximately Sept. 26, maintenance of the Lake Tapps Parkway storm water detention pond will require periodic lane restrictions on Lake Tapps Parkway for west-bound traffic from Lakeland Hills Way to approximately East Valley Access Road, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. for construction activities. The work is dependent on weather. Access to residences and busi-nesses within the project area will be maintained during construction but delays should be expected. For more information, contact the City of Auburn Community Development and Public Works Department at 253-931-3010.


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Giving back: Front row, from left, Peter Beckwith, APSF board president; Chantell Ankerfelt, Sam’s Club; Heather Inman, Sam’s Club; Kim Isom, APSF board; Judi Roland, APSF board; back row, from left, Rikki Birge, APSF board; Anne Baunach, APSF board; Kelly Fiksdal, APSF board; Laura Theimer, APSF board; Dr. James Fugate, APSF board; Lisa Connors, APSF board; and Mark Hancock, APSF executive director. RACHEL CIAMPI, Auburn Reporter

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Sam’s Club of Auburn gave a $10,000 donation to the Auburn Public Schools Foundation (APSF) during preview night of the new Auburn High School on Aug. 21.

The local Sam’s Club won a national Helen R. Walton Excellence in Community Leadership

Award. The award, named after the wife of store founder Sam Walton, is given to one Sam’s Club in the country each year for leadership in store em-ployee charitable giving, community involvement and volunteerism.

The award was based not only on how much money the Auburn store

raised but also on the number of associates. The Auburn Sam’s Club has about 150 employee associates.

In 2013, Sam’s Club of Auburn donated more than $50,000 to community. The contributions include Seattle Children’s Hospital ($5,000); The American Cancer Society ($5,000);

MS Society ($5,000); Ameri-can Legion Auburn Post 78($5,000); Auburn Food Bank ($5,000); Children’s Miracle Network ($4,000); and Sandy’s Soldiers Fight for MS ($3,000).

Sam’s Club of Auburn also donates an average of $300 monthly to nonprofit

organizations that request a small gift card for their community event.

The Sam’s Club corporate office gives $10,000 to the award-winning store to donate to a local charity of its choice.

Mike Hancock said the APSF is honored to receive

the funds to benefit Auburn students.

“I’m really proud of Sam’s Club for all their work sup-porting the community and for getting national atten-tion for Auburn,” Hancock wrote in an email. “Great things happen in Auburn.”

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Strong trio leading the way this season for Auburn MountainviewBY SHAWN SKAGER

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Ever since fourth-year coach Jared Gervais took over the Auburn Mountainview football program, the Lions have been known for their high-powered, spread offense.

Loaded with talented wide receivers and strong-armed quarterbacks, the Lions typically looked to put up as many points as possible, with the defense just hoping to bend, not break.

This year there is a change in the air with the Lions’ defensive unit.

On offense, Auburn Mounta-inview returns just four starters, including receiver Ryan Lacy and quarterback Gresch Jensen.

On defense, however, the Lions bristle, with nine returners from a squad that got better and bet-ter as the season advanced. At the top of the list of returners is the team’s trio of linebackers – seniors Aeron Watson and Jason Sele, and junior Antonio Corea.

“We’re actually a little returner-heavy on defense this year,” Gervais said. “Obviously we’ve got our three starting linebackers back. Altogether we’ve got nine returners on defensive.”

Last season Auburn Mounta-inview struggled to put together a 3-7 overall record, 1-4 in the South Puget Sound League 3A.

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of the 2013 season, the Lions gave up a whopping 217 points, including blowout losses to 4A Camas (69-24) and SPSL 3A rival Enumclaw (55-28).

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“We improved a lot at the end of last sea-son, so this defense is pretty tough,” Gervais said. “It took them a little while to figure it out last year, but hopefully we're back this season where we left off.”

And it all starts with Watson, Corea and Sele.

“Aeron is our start-ing middle linebacker and is the heart and soul of our team,” Gervais said. “He calls the plays on defense and breaks the huddle. He's undersized (5-foot-8, 185 pounds), but loves to fly around, a hyper-aggressive

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“Jason is just an amazing ath-lete. You watch the kinds of plays he makes, the angles he takes and the reads that he makes, pretty much everything is awesome,” Gervais said.

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AUBURN MOUNTAINVIEW LIONSCoach: Jared Gervais, fourth year

Last year: Fifth in the South Puget Sound League 3A with a 2-3 record, 3-7 overall with a loss in the district playoffs.

Type of offense: spread

Top returners: Gresch Jensen, junior, QB, 6-2/195; Ryan Lacey, junior, WR, 6-3, 170; Kaleb Bailey, senior, OL, 5-8/205; and Trevor Jensen, senior, OL, 6-3/225.

Type of defense: 3-3 stack.

Top returners: Aeron Watson, senior, MLB, 5-8/195; Jason Sele, senior, OLB, 6-2/215; Antonio Corea, junior, OLB, 5-9, 210; Caleb Arciaga, junior, DL, 5-11/260; Trevor Jensen, senior, DE, 6-3/225; Abene-go Kondiano, senior, DB, 5-8/165; Nate Hardin, senior, DB, 5-7/175; Gresch Jensen, junior, DB, 6-2/195; and Vaughn Daggs, junior, DB, 5-9/160.

Impact newcomers: Gavin Robertson, junior, WR/FS, 6-3/185; Ki’Jan Weisinger, junior, WR, 5-10/170; and Bitner Wilson, sophomore, RB/LB, 5-8/215

Outlook: Usually the Lions come into the season with an offense-first mentality. This year’s emphasis has shifted to the defensive side of the ball. With nine returners, led by an experienced core of linebackers in Watson, Sele and Corea, the undersized Lions will use speed in their 3-3 stack defensive to contain the high-flying spread offenses prevalent in the new SPSL 3A. They’ll have their hands full with teams like Peninsula and Lakes.Offensively, the team boasts an experienced signal caller in Gresch Jensen (24 passing TDs in 2013). Although he won’t many experienced targets, the cupboard is not bare with Lacey and newcomers Robertson and Wiesinger. Offensive lineman Bailey and Trevor Jensen will keep their quarterback safe and clear running lanes for the team’s one-two punch of Wilson and Harding.

Key game: The Lions play rival Enumclaw in the last game of the regular season on Oct. 31. Expect a bit of nastiness. These two teams don’t like each other much. The Lions play Auburn Riverside on Oct. 3 and Auburn on Oct. 24.

AUBURN RIVERSIDE RAVENSCoach: Bryant Thomas, second yearLast year: First in the South Puget Sound League 4A with a 7-1 record, 7-3 overall with a loss in the district playoffs.Type of offense: Pistol OptionTop returners: Gavin Hettinger, senior, WR, 5-11/185; Cole Huckaby, senior, RB, 5-11/190; John Coon, senior, OL, 6-2/250; Kyle Sutrick, junior, QB, 6-2/170; Den-nis Beard, junior, WR, 6-2/170; and James Baldwin, junior, RB, 5-10/210.Type of defense: 3-3 stack.Top returners: Hettinger, senior, DB, 5-11/185; Vinny Le, senior, LB, 5-10/205; Baldwin, senior, LB, 5-10/210; and Gerardo Cisneros, senior, LB, 5-10/200. Outlook: Last year head coach Bryant Thomas inspired a talented Raven team to overcome any of its previous notions about underachieving, with the team knocking off rival Auburn and taking home a piece of the SPSL North 4A title (with Kentwood). Many of last year’s leaders on offense are gone, including quarterback Kevin Thomson, standout receiver Drew Wallen and the bulk of the team’s offensive line. This year the team looks to junior Kyle Sutrick to drive its fluid pistol option. He’ll be aided by Gavin Hettinger who had 15 catches for 257 yards and two TDs last year, despite playing in only five games because of an injury. The Ravens plan to use Hettinger on the ground. Last season he had seven rushes for 70 yards and a pair of touchdowns. The bulk of the team’s running load should rest on the shoulders of Cole Huckaby, who won second-team All-SPSL North 4A honors with 859 yards and six TDs on the ground. The real key to the team’s offensive success is on the O-line, where the team looks to its sole returner, John Coon, to set the tone.Defensively, the Ravens are engineered to stop the spread offense run by the bulk of the teams in the new SPSL 3A. Hettinger, despite his time sidelined last year, still had three interceptions. Linebacker Vinny Le had 32 tackles, with five sacks and three interceptions last year. James Baldwin will slide into a linebacker slot from corner back. Again, the key will be finding the beef to stop the run and pressure the QB on the defensive line.

Key game: The Auburn Riverside versus Auburn game takes place early this season, with the Ravens hosting the Trojans on Sept. 26. The Ravens and the Lions meet for the first time on Oct. 3.AUBURN TROJANSCoach: Gordon Elliott, 13th yearLast year: Third in the South Puget Sound League North 4A with a 5-3 record, 6-4 overall.Type of offense: Jet SweepTop returners: Patrick O’Dell, senior, FB, 6-0/190; Demetreus Taua, junior, OL, 5-10/255; Mario Lu-evano, senior, OL, 5-8/250; Jacob Sanow, senior, OL, 5-10/240; and Payton Polly, senior, OL, 5-10/275.Type of defense: 3-3Top returners: Justin Ioimo, junior, DB, 6-2/200; Sam Lindsey, senior, LB, 5-10/200; Dillon O’Grady, junior, LB, 5-9/210; and Demetreus Taua, junior, DL, 5-10/255Impact newcomers: Malik Williams, junior, RB/DB, 5-8/160; and Jacob Apodaca, senior, DL, 5-11/272.Outlook: In a league filled with teams running the high-powered spread offense, the Trojans are an anomaly. For years Auburn has relied on the misdirec-tion and multiple ball carriers of the Jet Sweep, leav-ing defenders to guess who’ll have the ball and where they’ll come from. Pounding the ball down defenders throats is what Auburn does best. Don’t expect any different this season. The team returns the bulk of its offensive line from last season, with Taua, Luevano, Sanow and Polly looking to clear the way for fullback O’Dell and halfback Williams. Don’t expect this team to take to the air often.Defensively, the Trojans will have to contend with the prevalent spread offensive, but traditionally the team has had the push up front and a core of talented D-backs to deal with this. This season looks no differ-ent. Couple in an aggressive linebacking corps led by returners Lindsay and O’Grady, and the Trojans look to have the pieces to slow down the new SPSL 3A’s high-powered passing attacks. Key game: Auburn gets an early test when it hosts the defending SPSL 3A champs from Peninsula (8-4 last season) on Sept. 19. The big rivalry games against Auburn Mountainview and Auburn Riverside are Oct. 24 and Sept. 26, respectively.

AUBURN FOOTBALL GLANCES“Antonio is a junior,

started last year as a sophomore. He came in our second game and just started doing a great job.”

As for Watson, a senior, he welcomes the leader-ship role.

“We have to come out heavy everyday,” Watson said. “It used to be the offense that set the tone; this year it's the defense at practices. We just have to come out and get every-body pumped. I've always been the team vocal leader, so I feel it just falls right into what I do.”

On the field, the Lions rely on speed to make plays.

“We're very aggressive, and we all fly to the ball,” Watson said. “We all like to get in on the action. Our weakness would be our reads. They're not the best right now, but that comes with real game experience.”

Sele, also a senior, said he enjoys the added at-tention and responsibility as well.

“I like it way better now because everybody was always looking down at us as a defense,” he said. “They were always say-ing, 'Who is this school? They've done nothing.' But now they know what

we can do because of the end of last year. But this year, we're always together. It's a chemistry thing. We work together well. If we're off, if one player falls down, another is going to pick them up. It's a family, togetherness.”

Corea added:“It seems like the past

couple years the team was a little more offensive. But this year we've got a little more defensive mind set. The past couple of years people would run over us and think of us as one of the bottom defenses. This year we've got some good guys on varsity. All the summer conditioning and passing leagues have got us ready for the season and got our mindset. Everyone is on the same page. Our defense has improved so much over last year.”

This season the Lions play in a revamped SPSL 3A, with Sumner coming up from 2A, and Auburn and Auburn Riverside dropping down from 4A.

“We're just really excit-ed to get to play Auburn and Auburn Riverside, to have the rivalries going on in the city again,” Gervais said.

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Opal Anna (Land) Eversole of Auburn died August 22, 2014 at home with her daughter, Sylvia Marie and Son-in-Law Daniel Hertlein near her side. She was 95.

Born May 5, 1919, in Tigard Oregon, Opal Anna Land grew up in Seattle with her eleven brothers an sisters and graduated from Lincoln High School. She married Philip O. Eversole on December 8, 1945. Opal had worked for GE in Portland making ammunition during WWII and after getting married she raised foster children, opened the duty free store at the airport, then worked at Nordstrom’s at Southcenter. Opal was a member of the White River Presbyterian Church in Auburn until it closed. She then joined Grace Community Church.

Mrs. Eversole is survived by her son Philip O. Eversole Jr of Auburn, daughter Sylvia Marie Hertlein of Lake Tapps and Philip Koski of Longview. Opal has 7 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

A graveside service will be held at 9:30 AM Friday, September 5th at Tahoma National Cemetery in Maple Valley. A memorial

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On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, a line of people forms on the Auburn Skate Connection parking lot.

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The atmosphere is good. A lot of greetings, smiles and hugs. There are several vol-unteers at the end of the line, including a couple of pastors who pray for the families.

“Every month we serve over 450 people from 100 families,” said Paul Eun, CEO of FOL. “We are open to everyone. ... You need to register so that we can fig-ure out how much grocery shopping we have to do for that day. We don’t keep food in the pantry.”

Most of the people in waiting line are pre-regis-tered this way. There are about half a dozen families who did not register, but they end up getting their share by waiting at the end

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“We are pretty efficient from two years of experi-ence. We don’t want folks to wait too long in the line,” said Steve Kim, a volunteer and board member of FOL.

FOL recently started a school in Uganda to equip people to take care of them-selves. It is a big project.

“But this grocery distri-bution in our neighbor-hood is the first activity we started as an organization. We will always be here,” Eun said.

FOL’s door is open for those who want to volunteer. Cash donations are always needed. Grocery vendors are welcome to donate their products.

To register for next month’s distribution, visit www.folfoundation.com or call 253-394-6372.

The parking lots of Au-burn Skate Connection, 1825 Howard Road, and Rite Aid, 2131 SW 336th St., Federal Way, are distribution sites.

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