Justin Kim is going places. Literally and figuratively, the 16-year-old Auburn Riverside junior is making the most of his talent and dedication as a cellist to provide him with opportunity, now and in the future.
Trouble keeps finding the City of Pacific. Just days after acquiring a last-minute, new insurance policy and averting a possible shutdown of City services, the embattled City faces another crisis.
Auburn Riverside’s Shantell Jackson had 16 points to lead the Ravens to a 64-30 South Puget Sound League North 4A win over Auburn at Auburn Riverside on Saturday.
The Auburn Trojans maintained their hold on first place in the South Puget Sound League North 4A with a 70-58 league win over rival Auburn Riverside on Saturday.
The Trojans (7-1 league, 8-4 overall) were led by senior guard Harold Lee who scored a game high 23 points and added nine assists.
Citizens of beleaguered Pacific got a New Year’s Eve reprieve when the City Council voted unanimously to approve payment for a new insurance policy.
Auburn’s Bailie Davis was golden as a freshman in 2010-11. In her first year of high school gymnastics competition she punched her ticket to the state 4A meet in the floor exercise. Now a junior, Davis is looking to help lead the Trojans and earn another berth at the state championships.
The City of Pacific got a last minute reprieve on Wednesday with the City Council voting to accept an offer of insurance coverage for 2013.
The new policy will provide about half the coverage of the new insurance and cost more money, but it will stave off the possibility of the city having to annex into Auburn or cease to exist.
David Paulson stays true to himself. Despite signing a lucrative, four-year, $2.1 million contract with the Pittsburgh Steelers, the rookie tight end from Auburn remains grounded.
Auburn Memorial Stadium comes to life Saturday with the third annual Tanoa Bowl all-star football classic.
The games feature 140 top high school players from Washington, Oregon, Alaska and Washington, including the Tri Cities Elite and Washington Warriors youth select teams.
Big-time comedy comes to the Auburn Ave Theater on Friday with Brooks McBeth and John Keister taking the stage for a one-two punch.
The end of the world has come. Again. On Friday, for the umpteenth time in recorded human history, our world comes to an end.
It looks as if the City of Pacific will still be in business come the new year. City Council members notified residents at a meeting Monday that the City’s insurance broker has indicated that a company is interested in issuing a new policy to the beleaguered city.
For the young swimmers, it was a chance to learn from the best.
For Auburn’s Ariana and Emily Kukors, it was a chance to give back to the sport that has given them so much over the years.
The sisters came together to put on the first ever Kukors Kamp swim clinic at the Auburn Pool last Saturday. Participants were treated to three hours of instruction and inspiration from Ariana – an Olympian and world record-holder – and her older sister, Emily – an All-American and collegiate national champion.
According to President Obama, recreational marijuana users in Washington State will not be a “top priority” for federal drug enforcement officials.
“It would not make sense for us to see a top priority as going after recreational users in states that have determined that it’s legal,” Obama said in an interview with ABC’s Barbara Walters.
Gabby Rivera’s hands are a blur as she manipulates nine plastic stacking cups, arranging and breaking them down.
Rivera, a fifth-grader at Dick Scobee Elementary, is so fast that the clicking sound each cup makes as it touches the tabletop blends into the next one, producing a constant machine gun hum as she arranges the cups into several patterns.
Braaaaaaaappp.
Auburn Riverside, Auburn Mountainview and Auburn girls basketball teams swing into 2012-2013 season.
The big day may have been more than two weeks away, but for 22 kids from the Auburn School District, last Saturday must have seemed like Christmas morning.
The children, one each from the district’s 22 schools, were on hand at the Auburn Walmart Supercenter for the Auburn Police Officers Association-sponsored Shop With a Cop event.
“This is the second one we’ve done,” said Officer Jody Howard, event organizer. “I’d heard about it in other cities. We give money throughout the year and donate, but we set up some side funds for this. Last year we did 13 kids, but this year I wanted to do all the schools.
Hope that the City of Pacific’s insurance would continue past Dec. 31 was dashed on Monday with the announcement that the City’s insurer had declined a request for an extension.
Pacific residents were informed of the decision made by the board of the Cities Insurance Association of Washington at a well-attended city council meeting Monday evening in the Pacific gym.
The Cities Insurance Association of Washington has declined a request to extend the troubled City of Pacific’s insurance coverage past Dec. 31.
Pacific Council will consider the city’s options tonight.
Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Auburn) has sent a letter to Cities Insurance Association of Washington (CIAW) Chairman Wes Drago, asking for an extension of Pacific’s insurance coverage.
“I am asking for you to grant a six month extension of the decision to cancel the liability insurance at the end of the year,” Reichert wrote in a letter dated Dec. 7.
