Bryce Strand had no intention of coaching girls fastpitch. For the past 10 years the Auburn High School graduate and Auburn Riverside Spanish and social studies teacher helped the Raven baseball program as a head coach for the junior varsity squad. He figured coaching baseball would be his future. Until news of longtime Auburn Riverside fastpitch coach Chris Levernz’s retirement broke.
When John Tacke’s daughters first expressed an interest in competing in triathlons, the pickings in the Northwest were slim.
Realizing that any foray into the sport – a grueling mix of long distance running, open water swimming and biking – would require a fair amount of coaching, Tacke set about finding a place for his daughters to begin training.
“We started looking around for junior teams in the area to get them started and developed,” Tacke said. “There was not even one in the whole Northwest region.”
So like any good parent, he provided the opportunity by starting the RockSteady Junior Triathlon Club for ages 13 to 19.
Pacific Mayor Cy Sun cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm new interim City Clerk Sandy Paul at Monday’s City Council meeting.
At a raucous meeting – featuring several outbursts from the audience – the council deadlocked in its vote for Paul’s confirmation 3-3, with councilmembers Gary Hulsey, Joshua Putnam and Tren Walker voting yes and Leanne Guier, John Jones and James McMahon voting no.
Controversial Pacific Mayor Cy Sun placed the City’s two top cops on administrative leave on Friday. In an email sent to local media outlets Sun wrote: “…I have placed [Chief] John Calkins, Public Safety Director, and Lt. Edwin Massey on Paid Administrative Leave pending an investigation of allegations of harassment and intimidation.”
With just a couple weeks before the Washington Supreme Court is expected to rule on whether Pacific voters will see a recall of controversial Mayor Cy Sun on a ballot this summer, opponents of the mayor hosted a yard sale last weekend to raise money to pay for their ongoing legal battle.
For the past three years, Calvin, a 6-year-old Chesapeake Bay/Golden Retriever mix, has been a faithful and loving companion for a military family living in Pacific.
Pacific police are searching for a man who robbed the Subway restaurant at 420 Ellingson Road on Tuesday.
Former Pacific City Clerk Sandy Paul has been appointed interim city clerk and personnel manager, replacing Patti Kirkpatrick, whom Mayor Cy Sun let go two weeks ago.
Auburn Riverside boys basketball coach Jason Brown knew he had a special player on his hands when junior Derek Brown turned out for the Raven squad last summer.
Silky smooth on the court, with a well developed jump shot and passion for the game, Jason – in his first year at the helm of the Auburn Riverside varsity program – knew he had the piece he needed to build a winning tradition.
Recruit David Gubarik from Auburn survives rigors of basic training, earning the right to be called a Marine
Wetmore looks to step into familiar role and help power the Huskies to new heights
According to Washington State Auditor Troy Kelley, the City of Pacific’s finances and accountability are all above board.
The state auditor’s office released its review of Pacific’s books on Feb. 25, finding that the City’s financial reporting and compliance with government auditing requirements, from Jan. 1, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2011, were up to standards.
The turmoil in Pacific City Hall continued Tuesday with Mayor Cy Sun’s firing of City Clerk Patti Kirkpatrick. “Patricia Kirkpatrick did not successfully complete her trial period with the City of Pacific and was released from employment February 26, 2013,” Sun wrote via email. “The Finance Director [Betty Garrison], who is also a certified municipal clerk, will be the interim. I will advertise for a replacement immediately.”
Auburn’s three-game postseason winning streak and its basketball season came to end Saturday with a 58-53 loss to Jackson in the first round of the state regional playoffs.
If you haven’t yet heard of Pacific-based Northwest Brewing Company, your days of ignorance are numbered. Originally founded as Trade Route in 2008, the craft beer maker, which recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of its switch to Northwest Brewing, is poised to make a splash in the competitive craft brewing market, in the state and beyond.
The list reads like a who’s who of Auburn High School wrestling. Three-time state champion Jake Swartz is on it. So is Shane Onufer, who won state titles in 2006 and 2007 and earned All-American status at the University of Wyoming. Even Auburn coach Dennis Herren – who won the state 178-pound title for Auburn in 1994 – is on the list. There are more names on the list, like Trojan legends Mark Trott, Mike Mondt and Scott Tongue. But they’re all underneath one name, James West, Auburn wrestling’s all-time season pin leader.
Few high school boys basketball followers believe unranked Auburn has any chance of unseating second-ranked Jackson when the teams tangle in a first-round state regional playoff Saturday.
The Trojans, however, are accustomed to proving naysayers wrong.
“Last year we finished seventh in our league. All our seniors left so nobody expected us to do anything,” said junior guard JJ Ruffin. “But everybody in our locker room believes in us. Nobody else did, but everybody in our locker room did, and that’s all that mattered.”
It didn’t take long for for Auburn senior James West to tie his school’s season pin record at this past weekend’s Mat Classic XXV wrestling championships at the Tacoma Dome.
Just 1 minute, 30 seconds into his first-round, 182-pound match against Davis’ David Perez, West earned his 27th pin of the season.
If you came of age in the late ’70s or early ’80s, there is a pretty good chance the soundtrack to your first crush, first dance or first kiss came courtesy of the rock band Journey.
So prevalent was the band’s radio-friendly, musical mix of hard rock balladry that there was simply no escape from the tunes, whether on the radio, on MTV or at a junior high school dance.
Pacific residents came to Monday’s meeting of the Pacific City Council expecting to give the council and Mayor Cy Sun an earful about low staffing levels in the police department.
But before people could vent their anger at Sun for his refusal to hire more police officers, he walked out, upset by the council’s decision to strike two ordinances and an appointment to the city’s civil service commission that he had put on the agenda.
Citing Sun’s negligence in clearing the items with it first, the council removed them.
