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HONOR. Deputy Chief Toryono Green reminded attendees of the Sept. 11 remebrance ceremony that it is now more risky than ever before to be a first

responder. (Below) Mountain View Funeral Home and Memorial Park provided doves that were released at the event. First nine were released, then 11 more in a second wave.

TACOMA FIREFIGHTERS MARK 14TH ANNIVERSARY OF TERRORIST ATTACKS

NEW YORK FIREFIGHTER: “EITHER YOU SURVIVED OR YOU DIDN’T. WE DIDN’T GET TO GO TO RETIREMENT PARTIES. WE WENT TO FUNERALS INSTEAD.”

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he Tacoma Fire Department honored the heroes and victims of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 at a public anniversary remembrance at the Firefighter’s Memorial along Ruston Way last Friday. The service also provided time for attendees to simply reflect on the service of all first responders everywhere.

But one guest speaker at the Tacoma event was in New York that day and provided some perspective of the events those 14 years ago and thousands of miles away.

Ray McCormick is a lieutenant at the New York Fire Department. He had worked the night

of Sept. 10, 2001, when he got a call that his wife was suffering from extremely high blood pressure and rushed home. He was speeding back into work the next morning and heard the alert calls on his emergency scanner.

“I was like, ‘Am I really hearing this?’ and then I looked up and saw the smoke,” McCormick said, admitting that he ran a few red lights to report for duty at his station and await a call for assistance.

The World Trade Center towers had been hit by commercial airlines. The towers fell within hours, killing some 3,000 people in New York and in attacks on the Pentagon and in a failed hijacking in Pennsylvania. Entire stations of firefighters were killed.

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TEAM WALKS TO HONOR BELOVED TRIBAL MEMBER

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LIFT-OFF! Teacher Gabriel Newton (right) releases the weather balloon as his assembled students bid a fond farewell. “We counted down from 10, released it and then just hoped,” Newton said.

STUDENTS’ WEATHER BALLOON EXPERIMENT IS A SUCCESS

By Matt Nagle matt@tacomaweekly.com

Elementary school students at Charles Wright Academy jumped right into the new school year by conducting a cool science experiment that reached into the lower boundary of the stratosphere.

Led by teacher Gabriel Newton, science and technology specialist at Charles Wright Academy, the students launched a near-space weather balloon on Sept. 11 complete with a GoPro camera to record the journey, an iPhone for GPS tracking, and a parachute.

“There were a million variables that could cause havoc in this experiment so I really didn’t know what to expect,” he said, but meeting with his students beforehand, Newton and his class laid a plan and set out to test it. u See WEATHER / page A11

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When the Tacoma Free to Breathe 5K and 1-mile run/ walk kicks off at Wright Park on Saturday, Sept. 19, one group of walkers will be there in honor of a beloved member of the Puyallup Indian Tribe who passed away from lung cancer in 2013. Judy Wright was a brilliant tribal historian and director of the tribe’s historic preservation department for more than 30 years, in addition to being a past Puyallup Tribal Council member. She passed away at age 72 after battling the disease for three years. Now her daughter Anlot Wright, a registered nurse and social services coordinator at the tribe’s House of Respect elders center, has assembled “Team Judy Wright” consisting u See HONOR / page A3

schools gathered on Sept. 10 to energize and rally in the wake of the Washington Supreme Court ruling their schools unconstitutional.

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On Friday, Sept. 4, kids in school were preparing for the long Labor Day weekend. Unbeknownst to about 1,200 children attending charter schools across the state, the Supreme Court was also in session, deciding the fate of the schools they had just decided to attend.

At the end of the day, the Supreme Court decided by a ruling of six to three that charter schools are unconstitutional, and that will have repercussions for the three that opened in Tacoma this year.

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N 4th and Yakima Ave Tacoma has a tremendous pothole problem, and the residents know it.

During the past couple of years, the city has acknowledged this issue by spending millions of dollars in major arterial repairs with the council’s “pothole initiative.� In 2010, routine maintenance by Tacoma’s Grounds and Maintenance Division completed street repairs on 229,638 square feet of road.

In 2011, the city repaired about 150,000 more square feet of roads riddled with holes, and continue those efforts.

While that may sound like a lot of ground, new holes pop up – or return – each and every day, which means a pothole-free road might never exist in Tacoma.

With the help of our readers and our dedicated Pothole Pig, we will continue to showcase some of the city’s biggest and best potholes through our weekly homage to one of T-Town’s most unnerving attributes.

Help the Pothole Pig by e-mailing your worst pothole suggestions to SaveOurStreets@tacomaweekly.com.

Potholes in need of repair can be reported to the City of Tacoma by calling (253) 591-5495.

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Bulletin Board ASSOCIATED MINISTRIES INTRODUCES NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Michael Yoder has officially joined the Associated Ministries team on Aug. 31 as new executive director. Yoder brings more than 30 years of experience as a nonprofit leader with a career that has been marked by innovation and communications excellence.

In his previous role at World Vision, Yoder helped create programs that engaged constituents in unique new ways.

During his 12 years there, he launched a national mobile tour that powerfully illustrated the plight of African children impacted by the AIDS pandemic: two museum-quality exhibits designed as realistic African villages traveled to 200 leading churches, universities and other venues, impacting 200,000 people and raising tens of millions of dollars.

He also helped raise up a cadre of committed activists to speak out against issues of poverty and injustice, mobilized thousands of young people to raise awareness and funding for global hunger, and spearheaded efforts to engage hundreds of faith groups in meeting the needs of the world’s most marginalized people.

In coming on board at, AM Yoder shared, “It is exciting for me to envision the vital role that Associated Ministries can play in catalyzing a resurgence of faith-based efforts to positively impact social needs throughout our region. I believe a new movement of interfaith service and cooperation can be birthed right here in Pierce County, and AM and its partners can be the catalysts of that movement. I’m so excited to start this incredible journey together.�

Dr. Chris Gilbert, president of the Associated Ministries Board, shared, "AM is overjoyed to have someone the caliber of Mike join us to take the lead in our community service programs and essential funding efforts. It was obvious from the start that he is passionate about our unique mission to unify people of all backgrounds and faiths around the vital needs of our marginalized neighbors in Pierce County. AM is not simply a haven for talking together at the same table; with Mike in the lead, this becomes an interfaith table dedicated to action. That is essential for AM and Pierce County moving into the future."

As part of his three decades of work with international religious and humanitarian organizations, Yoder has traveled to 30 countries and is a dedicated observer of news and trends affecting nonprofits and social justice issues. He is a graduate of California State University with a degree in communications.

ELS TACOMA OFFERS FREE ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION ELS Tacoma, an English language instruction and university preparation center located on the campus of Bates Technical College in downtown Tacoma, is offering free English classes. Classes are open to students with levels ranging from elementary through advanced. Lower level classes are every Tuesday and Thursday from 1-3 p.m. and upper level classes are every Monday and Wednesday from 1-3 p.m. Located at Bates Technical College, Room A300, 1101 S. Yakima Ave. For more information, call (253) 680-7286 or e-mail celta@els.edu.

FOSS SEAPORT HOSTS NORTHWEST STEAM SOCIETY WEEKEND Foss Waterway Seaport will host a Northwest Steam Society weekend Sept. 19 and 20. See steam-powered boats as they traverse the Foss Waterway, ask questions of the boat owners, and help your kids make their own working model steam boat.

This weekend event will feature the Seaport's wonderful "steam" exhibit and is geared to area families and steam enthusiasts.

We are thrilled to welcome back the Northwest Steam Society who will bring a collection of their steamers to moor at the Seaport's dock. Free with paid admission to the Seaport, the boat owners will share their steamers with museum guests, demo and explain how they work, plus answer all your questions. They will provide plenty of steam whistle sounds to support this event and will be sure to attract the curious.

If you have never seen these delightful boats, now is the time to come to the Seaport...they are amazing. The group plans to race their boats on the Thea Foss Waterway and take a select few of our guests out for a short cruise. The Northwest Steam Society, www.northweststeamsociety.org, has over 300 members with all kinds of steam interests from steam cars to agricultural machinery, steam railroads and steamboats.

Just think, back in the late 1800's through the early 1900's, before refined petroleum, gasoline and diesel engines were common, all you needed was something to burn, some nice fresh water, a boiler to change water into steam, and an engine to create the power to turn the propeller. Puget Sound had steamboats all over our waters transporting people and goods, and even using them just for fun. The Northwest Steam Society's steamers are mostly steam launches, best suited for taking people from the dock to a ship at anchor or simply to have a leisurely picnic while exploring some back waters. Come and enjoy the sights and sounds of a long lost era of great importance to the development of our region and country.

Additionally, we will offer many steam activities for kids of all ages throughout each day. Activities include: “Part of a Boat� (board our kid's boat moored securely on land), “What is Displacement?,� “The Power of Pressure – The Great Balloon Race,� “Molecule Dance,� “Smash Can Experiment,� “Blow That Steam Whistle� (hourly), and bring that cell phone and take your picture with Hyak crew and passengers, a Mosquito Fleet steamer from the past. For the younger generations, plan to purchase a steamboat kit, build it and race it in our large pond located in the Seaport's parking lot.

We will have many steam activities for kids of all ages... great fun!

Foss Waterway Seaport Executive Director Wesley Wenhardt said, “We are so excited to welcome Northwest Steam Society with their wonderful steamers and invite the public to reconnect with the Tacoma waterfront, Puget Sound and experience the incredible history of our region.�

The theme for the summer season, “Tacoma: This is Your Waterfront,� highlights the many historic maritime treasures in the Seaport’s collection. Throughout the summer themed programs and weekend activities will use those artifacts as touchstones to connect visitors to their shared past – the sailors, ships, rail yards, workers and the Port that shaped Puget Sound into the region it is today.

The museum is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. Admission: free for Seaport members, $8 for adults, $5 for children (5 +), students, military and seniors (62+), $20 for a family pass. (Up to 2 adults and 4 children) Parking is available adjacent to the Seaport. Side tie public moorage is available with power and water, and a four-hour stay at the Seaport dock is free. Moorage is within walking distance of restaurants, museums and downtown. For more information visit: fosswaterwayseaport.org.

TART SEEKS VOLUNTEERS Now that the initial productions of Tacoma Actors Repertory Theatre are quickly approaching, TART needs to fill a handful of volunteer positions for their new venue located within the Historic Tacoma Armory.

TART is seeking theater and arts-loving folks who would enjoy any or all of the following responsibilities while also getting to see the shows for free: box office, ushering and concessions.

TART’s first production, “Three Viewings,� opens Oct. 7, so volunteers are needed soon. Performances run Thursdays through Sundays, with matinees on both Saturdays and Sundays.

If interested, please email info@tacomarep.org and write the words "VOLUNTEER FOR FALL/WINTER" in the email subject line.

U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT HONORS PLU The accolades continue to amass for Pacific Lutheran University, which has been honored as a College of Distinction for 2015-16 and ranked No. 14 in the West on U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Regional Universities, released Sept. 9. Earlier this year, PLU was named a Best in the West University by The Princeton Review; ranked number 25 in the Best Master’s Universities category of the national 2015 Washington Monthly College Rankings; and was named a Best Bang for the Buck university by The Washington Monthly.

In addition to the overall Western university honor, U.S. News & World Report also ranked PLU: • No. 7 in the West for Best Value; • One of the West’s “A+ Schools for B Studentsâ€?; and • No. 13 in the West for veterans.

PLU has ranked among the top 20 Western Region universities every year since U.S. News & World Report’s first annual “Best College� survey in 1983.

U.S. News & World Report’s rankings are based on academic reputation, retention, graduation rate, faculty resources (including class size), student selectivity, financial resources and alumni giving rate. This year’s rankings show increases for PLU in the Best Regional and Best Value categories.

The College of Distinction honor is based on excellence in four categories: engaged students, great teaching, vibrant campus communities and successful outcomes. “Your folks could be a poster child for our four distinctions,� said Wes Creel of Colleges of Distinction.

PLU also was named a “best practices leader� for its First-Year Experience Program (FYEP) and Living/Learning Communities and will be featured in Colleges of Distinction social-media and website content. “This designation acknowledges how PLU’s culture of care and collaboration directly contributes to the connectedness of the FYEP and Residential Learning Communities experiences,� said Joanna Royce-Davis, Vice President for Student Life at PLU. “Both learning opportunities purposefully integrate course-based learning with intentionally positioned opportunities to make sense of learning in community.�

PLU also is included on the Washington Colleges of Distinction and the Christian Colleges of Distinction lists, and a profile of PLU is part of the 2015-16 Colleges of Distinction eGuidebook.

High-school college counselors and educators nominate colleges and universities for recognition by Colleges of Distinction, which then evaluates each institution based on qualitative and quantitative research. The colleges and universities are not ranked but instead are members of a consortium of other equally impressive schools.

Colleges of Distinction says it looks beyond rankings and test scores to find colleges that are the ideal places to learn, grow and succeed. The selection process reviews such factors as the school’s first-year experience, general education program, experiential components of the curriculum, the strategic plan and alumni success and satisfaction.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON E-CIGARETTES Have something to say about e-cigarettes and vaping?

Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department wants to hear from you at a public meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 6:30-8 p.m. in the Auditorium, 3629 S. D St. The agenda includes a presentation on proposed policies regarding e-cigarettes, a question and answer period and time for public comment.

During public testimony, the hosts may limit the time allotted for each commenter based on the total number of people who sign up to comment.

In lieu of public testimony, you can also provide your comments via email or regular mail by 4:30 p.m. Sept. 23.

Direct comments to Anthony L-T Chen, Director of Health, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, 3629 S. D St., Tacoma, WA, 98418, or via email at director@tpchd.org.

The Health Department will make all public comments available to the Board of Health. If you have questions, please contact Tawana Bellamy at tbellamy@tpchd.org or (253) 798-2899.

COUNTY ORAL HEALTH COALTION HOLDS ORAL HEALTH SYMPOSIUM You already know that oral health is directly linked to overall health and well-being. Pierce County’s “What’s Trending in Oral Health� symposium will help you stay on top of the trends, gain new insight and relevant, timely information about medical, social and other factors that impact oral health. Come and participate in this educational morning on Friday, Oct. 2.

This symposium is open to the general public and is perfect for dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants and front office staff; school and preschool health educators, nurses, and health aids; primary care physicians, pediatricians, ARNPs and Pas; registered nurses, LPNs, and nursing assistants; and anyone interested in oral and overall health. “What’s Trending in Oral Healthâ€? offers: • professional, engaging speakers • useful information in working with patients, students, community members • four (4) CEU credits • affordable registration fee • local and convenient location at Bates Technical College South Campus, 2201 S. 78th St., Tacoma, WA 98409 • sponsor exhibitors with valuable information.

Find the complete symposium schedule and registration form at www.pcohc.org/tag/pierce-county-oral-healthcoalition. “What’s Trending in Oral Health� is sponsored by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Lindquist Dental Clinic, Pierce County Dental Society, Bates Technical College, Pierce College and Pierce County Oral Health Coalition.

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FIGHT LUNG CANCER AT TACOMA FREE TO BREATHE 5K RUN/WALK

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On a mission to make surviving lung cancer the expectation, not the exception, hundreds of people are gearing up for the Free To Breathe 5k Run\Walk presented by Korum Automotive Group on DAVID ROSE Saturday, Sept. 19 at Wright Park in Tacoma. All proceeds from the event support Free to Breathe, a lung cancer research and advocacy organization dedicated to doubling lung cancer survival by 2022.

Mike Clark lost his father, Charles, to lung cancer in 1989 and his brother, Brian, in 2013.

“So we’re not just running for my brother and my father, we’re running for those that are suffering this disease as well as the survivors that are out there,” said Clark who has his father’s trademark smile.

Sean Lizama's father is one of those survivors. He has been training for the 5k and is running for his dad. “Watching him fight this, I learned what true perseverance is and true faith is,” he said. Both men are urging people to sign up for the event. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the world but new drugs are helping.

Cathy Schrock's best friend, Lynn Osborne, died from the disease but fought it to the end because of new drugs. "She was in a clinical trial and, at one point in her battle, had a 100 percent response to that drug," said Schrock who will be participating in her seventh Free

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to Breathe 5k. Lynn never smoked but Schrock is united with Clark and Lizama in the belief that every person with lung cancer deserves a cure. "Even if people smoked, they deserve the same chance to fight for their life and their survival, just like anybody else does," said Lizama.

He and Clark want you to make sure you know your family history because both had aunts with lung cancer. "If one out of every three people is affected by this disease, then we’re all connected by this disease," said Lizama.

Community members, teams and local businesses came together during the 2014 Tacoma Free to Breathe 5K Run/Walk to raise over $61,500 for a disease that touches over 224,000 newly diagnosed patients each year. Event chairs hope to reach their goal of $72,000 this year, which will go a long

way in supporting lung cancer research and educational programs.

The 5K Run/Walk will be the main focus at this year’s enlivening event. Prize drawings will accompany an already invigorating day that the entire family can enjoy. Special recognition will be given to top finishers and fundraising heroes. To sign up, visit www.freetobreathe. org/tacoma. Those who aren’t able to attend still have an enormous impact by registering and fundraising as a virtual walker. Or, those who wish to create their own unique fundraiser can access tools from Free to Breathe that will help turn any passion into a custom fundraising opportunity. The possibilities are endless but the end result is certain – improving the lives of everyone affected by lung cancer. To get started today, visit www.freetobreathe.org/ community-fundraising.

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of Wright and friends Regina Logan, Nell Reed, Lois Jacobs, Kristina Kubik, Huey and Logan Tougaw, Debbie John, Ruth Gallo and Chenoa Landry.

“Last year, my friends and I decided to do 5k every month and I got in charge of finding them. Last year we picked Free to Breathe. I decided that since mom had lung cancer I’d put together a fundraiser for this year,” Wright said. “In the bigger picture, it’s about bringing awareness to the importance of cancer research and funding and getting the message out to support the people affected by it.”

Judy Wright attracted many

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IN MEMORY. To honor the late Puyallup tribal historian Judy Wright (shown in center photo), her daughter Anlot Wright (second from right) has assembled Team Judy Wright to honor her memory at the Tacoma Free to Breathe 5K run/ walk. Shown here (from left) are team members Kristina Kubik, Huey Tougaw, Anlot Wright and Lois Jacobs.

friends both personally and professionally during her years serving her tribe. A warm and friendly woman, she was always eager to share her knowledge of

the Puyallups and Coast Salish history and culture. She left a lasting impression on her tribal community and people across the country fortunate enough to

know her and work with her.

Fond memories of Judy Wright continue to be shared to this day, and the legacy she built for the tribe’s historic preservation efforts set a foundation that stands firm.

The team’s goal is to raise $10,000, which they are closing in on thanks to a $5,000 donation from the Tribal Council. Anyone wishing to donate to Team Judy Wright can do so at www. freetobreathe.org/tacoma and search for Team Judy Wright.

Fundraising will remain open through Nov. 3.

Tacoma Free to Breathe begins with registration and check in at 7:30 a.m. and an opening rally at 8:40. The 5K run starts at 9 a.m., the 5K walk at 9:15 and the 1-mile walk at 9:20. For more information, visit www. freetobreathe.org.

Tacoma teen charged in assault, kidnapping that triggered AMBER Alert Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist has charged Mickeal Anthony-Rene Gordon, 17, with two counts of assault in the first degree, kidnapping in the second degree, drive-by shooting and unlawful possession of a firearm in the second degree for abducting his ex-girlfriend and their 5-month-old son, and shooting at the woman’s new boyfriend.

“Fortunately, the young mother and her baby are home safe and reunited with their family,” said Lindquist. “The prompt response by the Tacoma Police Department and the AMBER Alert contributed to a quick resolution.”

On Sept. 12, 2015, Gordon showed up at a Tacoma home looking for his 18-year-old ex-girlfriend and their baby. A witness at the home attempted to call the young woman to warn her, but she drove up moments later in a van with her baby, her new boyfriend, and several other juveniles.

Gordon opened the van door, struck the woman and dragged her by her hair to his car. He also took his son before firing a shot through the van’s back window. As the new boyfriend ran with a 10-year-old child, Gordon fired two more shots at him, missing both times. Gordon fled the scene in his car. The abduction prompted the issuance of an AMBER Alert.

Four hours later, Gordon’s car was found abandoned. The abducted woman and her baby safely returned home shortly after that. She told police that Gordon had driven her around for a while and then let her out of the car.

Charges are only allegations and a person is presumed innocent unless he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Some benefits of floating include: • Relief of pain • Improved sleep • Reduced anxiety and depression • Greater self-confidence and wellbeing • Improved digestion and immunity • Lowered cortisol • Balanced hormone production • Greater mental focus and clarity • Enhanced creativity • Faster illness/injury recovery • Improved physical performance • Release of old habits Floating is becoming an increasingly popular activity for people looking to enter states of relaxation, and Uncharted Waters lets you do it in style. The company offers four separate private cabins for your floating experience that includes restroom facilities, a shower and your float chamber. It is one of the few float facilities that offers everything you need in your own private cabin, allowing you to immediately get into the mindset of solitude. “It’s less intimidating to people who may be claustrophobic or have mobility issues,â€? co-owner Jonathan Murray said.

The float chamber itself is the main attraction.

Each pool is 11 inches deep with approximately 800 pounds of Epsom salt saturated in 110 gallons of water. The water is heated to a comfortable 93.5 degrees Fahrenheit. You can float with relaxing lights or in complete darkness. The lights can help you transition into the proper mindset, but if they later become a distraction, you have complete control and can turn them off whenever you like to experience complete sensory deprivation. Regardless of your decision, your session will last an hour – an hour to just shut off, an hour to relax and forget about all your stress and pain in the world. You can feel every little movement you make, and you become in tune with your own body.

You will leave the chamber feeling completely refreshed, and Uncharted Waters knows this. It’s why they also provide customers with an after-float lobby to unwind in. The room features free water and tea, as well as notebooks floaters can write in, as oftentimes a deep meditative state encourages creative outbursts.

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already offers massages, and eventually Uncharted Waters hopes to become Tacoma’s number one stop for body relaxation. “We want to grow and expand to acupuncture,�

Murray said. “A one stop wellness center with floating at our core.�

Uncharted Waters began its journey in April, and there is nowhere else the owners would have liked to open the location. “We love Tacoma, and we’re very excited to be part of it,� co-owner Sarah Murray said. “It’s kind of the secret of the Puget Sound.�

Uncharted Waters are also big supporters of the military, and floating has linked benefits to PTSD. “Floating is a very natural way to kind of process those emotions and things that sneak up on you, so we’re very happy to be able to support the military community,� Sarah said.

This is exemplified in the company’s Freedom Float plan, in which customers can purchase or put money toward a float for military members.

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While there is much information available on what we should do to have healthy teeth and gums, one of the most important things not to do is to skip going to the dentist.

For many people, fear is the driving force behind avoiding dental appointments, so it is important to find a dentist who knows this and works to alleviate apprehension in patients.

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Hopkins & Shin Dentistry applies a gentle approach with state-of-the-art technologies, offering oral sedation for those patients who normally avoid going to the dentist due to dental anxiety. This can include nitrous oxide or oral conscious sedation in pill form, such as Valium and Halcion, to dull the senses. Some sedatives work so effectively that even the smells and details of the procedure cannot be recalled afterward. “I have a very high fear of dentistry, and after finding out more about Sedation Dentistry with Hopkins and Shin family dentistry, I felt a bit more comfortable and was able to get all of my dental work completed at one appointment,� states one satisfied patient.

In an online review, patient Adam V. wrote: “As a person who is absolutely terrified of dental work and only goes in when an emergency comes up, this place is the real deal. Dr. Shin is by far the best dentist in the state. He will, in detail, explain everything that's going on in person or on the phone.

They go at your pace, never rushing to get through the procedure. They give you breaks whenever you need one (which I do due to fear). Thank you, Dr. Shin. You have helped me more than you know.�

Hopkins & Shin Dentistry offers a very broad range of services – root canals, extractions, crowns and bridges as well as basic restorations, and cosmetic and orthodontics using the Invisalign approach (“the clear alternative to braces�). Hopkins & Shin also offers relief for snoring and lifethreatening sleep apnea. Using an alternative to the CPAP

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Dr. Hopkins grew up in this area, graduating from Fife High School and having his practice in Milton since 1994. “It’s so rewarding to watch our patients grow up with us then return with their young families,� he said. Dr. Shin attended the University of Washington for his undergraduate studies and attended Northwestern University Dental School and Nova Southeastern Dental School where he received his dental degree in 2000.

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New SchOOl YeAR StARtS wIth OPPORtUNItIeS tO helP chIldReN leARN Unlike Tacoma’s northern neighbor, local schools started on time last week and are already in full swing with stacks of homework, sports schedules and three-ring binders filling backpacks around the school district.

What is also increasingly part of school life around Tacoma is some sort of program, mentorship or activity designed to aid student success rather than just plodding along. Those efforts don’t just happen in classrooms, but in coffee shops, stages, ball fields and boardrooms.

And they can involve you. They should involve you. They need to involve you.

It was not that long ago that Tacoma’s classrooms were points of civic shame. A mere five years ago, just over half of its students actually graduated. Our schools were “dropout factories,� a name they couldn’t brush off. Rather than shirk responsibility, community members, district staff and businesses took the matter to heart and set out to make our schools a matter of pride again through partnerships, measurable goals and progress reports.

The efforts are working. Graduation rates were up to 78 percent last year, the highest since the state started keeping records and 2 percent higher than the state average. But that is not enough. The goal is a graduation rate of 85 percent by 2020, just five years from now.

While it might seem statistically easy to increase graduation rates by just seven percentage points over five years after already boosting rates by 20 points in just three years, like weight loss, the first changes are the easiest. The district, the nonprofit education boosters at Foundation for Tacoma Students, teachers, staff, volunteers, mentors and you have a tall order to fill to reach that next goal. Yes, education doesn’t just happen in the classroom. It demands community involvement, in all ways, always. We all have roles to play. Some of us can mentor and coach. Others can organize and plan. Others can work stadium concession stands. Yet others can simply wear school T-shirts while they mow lawns or rake leaves to show pride in neighborhood schools as students walk home.

There is no single magic trick to boost student achievement other than that it requires everyone to support the effort. Let’s show our students that education matters. That they matter.

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Letter to the Editor Dear Editor, Kudos to Congressman Kilmer for holding a “Bus Town Hall� about transit and just being accessible to the public (“Kilmer holds transit chat aboard Pierce Transit bus,� TW Sept. 11, 2015). I have met with the Congressman several times in Washington, D.C. and found him to be a good listener who takes action to benefit people locally, nationally and in our world. The latter is extremely important as the world shrinks, as shown by the recent Ebola outbreak. So let us do our part and use our voices to speak to our representatives to let them know what is important – for example, Senate bill S. 1911, the Reach Every Mother and Child Act (that will soon be introduced in the House), that reforms our developmental aid agency, US AID. This legislation will make our aid more efficient and transparent, while it targets ending the preventable deaths of women and children in our world. All this without adding new money in a bill that is being supported by both Republicans and Democrats. So thanks to Congressman Kilmer for being reachable, and let’s ask him to continue to support legislation that makes a difference, like the Reach Act when it gets to the House.

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teSlA ANd the mININg bUSINeSS

By Don C. Brunell

Tesla is the premium entry in the electric car market, with a starting price of $75,000. According to the Wall Street Journal, the high-end “signature� model costs $132,000, slightly more than the base price for Porsche’s AG’s 911 GT3.

Even with a $7,500 federal tax credit, an assortment of state tax credits and $10,000 in fuel saving over five years, the driver’s investment is over $110,000 – far beyond the reach of the average family.

However, Tesla’s luxury styling and impressive performance give high-end buyers the best of both worlds – luxury transportation and the satisfaction of environmental stewardship.

In that light, it might surprise some that Tesla’s success depends in large part on lithium mining.

Tesla cars are made of carbon fiber and powered by racks of lithium-ion batteries. Strong, light and cost-efficient, carbon fiber is being used increasingly by commercial airplane manufacturers.

On board Boeing’s 787, the batteries are lithium-ion as well.

Like Boeing and Airbus, auto manufacturers are under economic and regulatory pressure to produce more fuel efficient products.

In 2012, the Obama Administration implemented CAFÉ (Corporate Auto Fuel Efficiency) standards that require automakers to manufacture cars that get 35.5 miles per gallon in 2016. The standard ratchets up to 54.5 mpg by 2025.

The real goal is to replace gas and diesel car engines with electric motors.

The key to achieving that goal is to reduce the vehicle’s weight. Two of the best ways to accomplish that are to substitute carbon fiber for metal and replace heavier traditional heavier batteries with the more costly light weight Lithium-ion types.

The advantages of carbon fiber are sparking huge investments in the technology. Tesla is building a $5 billion battery factory near the lithium mines in northern Nevada in hopes of reducing battery costs by at least 30 percent as it plans to ramp up production to 55,000 cars this year.

Reducing costs is important to Tesla, because its competitors are intent on producing more affordable electric cars.

BMW has introduced a new two-seat electric commuter car in the $15,000 range. That prompted BMW and partner SGL to invest more than $200 million in a new carbon fiber production facility in Moses Lake where low cost hydropower is abundant.

Hybrid car sales are growing. In 2010, roughly 275,000 of the 11.6 million autos sold in the United States were hybrids, according to the Electric Drive Transportation Association. Pure electric cars registered just 19 sales. Fast forward to 2013, when plug-in vehicles sales were nearly 97,000.

Carbon fiber and lithium production each have their competitive and environmental challenges. Low cost electricity is vital to keeping carbon

fiber prices reasonable. The material has to be competitive enough to give it an advantage over traditional metal. The key for BMW has been hydropower, the least expensive of any generating source. However, hydropower is not as abundant in drought years. Just ask California. In the case of lithium mining, the problem is ensuring that enough water is available. Lithium is found in abundance in South America, where the cheapest extraction method is to flood a lithium deposit with water to release the lithium. In lithium-rich regions of Chile, extracting the metal uses twothirds of the area’s fresh drinking water.

Then there is the matter of where the electricity comes from that recharges electric cars at home and in parking lots.

Right now fossil fuel power plants or hydropower dominate the electric power grids in the west.

The point is that it is important that new technologies be developed. It also is important to remember that electric car makers are subject to the same economic and environmental challenges as other manufacturers: production costs, availability of supplies, affordable energy and abundant water.

Don C. Brunell is a business analyst, writer and columnist. He recently retired as president of the Association of Washington Business, the state’s oldest and largest business organization, after 28 years.

He now lives in Vancouver. He can be contacted at theBrunells@msn.com.

the tIde Of hIStORY flOwS left

By James A. Haught

One of my history-minded friends has a long-range political view summed up in three words: Liberals always win.

Complex social struggles may take centuries or decades, he says, but they eventually bring victory for human rights, more democratic liberties, a stronger public safety net, and other progressive goals.

Look how long it took to end slavery.

Generations of agitation and the horrible Civil War finally brought triumph for liberal abolitionists and defeat for conservative slavery supporters.

Look how long it took for women to gain the right to vote. In the end, liberal suffragettes prevailed, conservative opponents lost.

Look at the long battle to give couples the right to practice birth control. Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was jailed eight times for the crime of mentioning sex - but she eventually transformed U.S. society. A Supreme Court victory in 1965 struck down contraceptive bans for married couples, and a follow-up victory in 1972 struck them down for unwed ones. Liberals won, conservatives lost.

In the 1920s, conservatives imposed Prohibition of alcohol on America, but they eventually lost, and booze flowed again.

Similarly, conservatives tried to block Social Security pensions for retirees – and unemployment compensation for the jobless – and equality for blacks – and Medicare and Medicaid – and equality for women – and food stamps for needy families – and expanded health insurance under the Affordable Care Act – and equality for gays – etc. But all these stormy social conflicts ended the same way: Liberals always win. Conservatives always lose.

The nonviolent civil rights movement that ended Jim Crow segregation and made Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. an American icon was a classic liberal victory.

Of course, history doesn't move in a clear, predictable manner. Germany

was advanced and modern – yet it sank into the horrors of Nazism. Other setbacks have occurred, but the overall tide of civilization flows in a progressive direction.

In his landmark book, "The Better Angels of Our Nature," Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker concludes that all sorts of human evils – war, genocide, murder, rape, torture, dueling, wife-bashing, attacks on minorities, etc. – have faded enormously from the Western world. International warfare has virtually vanished. The pursuit of such humane goals lies at the heart of the liberal agenda.

When I first became a news reporter in the 1950s, conservative Bible Belt morality was enforced by laws. It was a crime for stores to open on the Sabbath. It was a crime to look at the equivalent of a Playboy magazine or to read a sexy book.

(The mayor of my town once sent cops to raid bookstores selling "Peyton Place.")

Back then, it was a felony to be gay, and those who were caught were sent to prison under old sodomy laws. Back then, it was a felony for a desperate girl to end a pregnancy. It was illegal for an unmarried couple to share a bedroom.

Divorce or an unwed pregnancy was an unmentionable disgrace. Jews weren't allowed into Christian-only country clubs.

Public schools had a mandatory teacherled prayer. It was a crime to buy a cocktail or a lottery ticket.

That world disappeared, decade after decade. The culture slowly evolved.

Sunday "blue laws" were undone.

Teacher-led prayers were banned. Gay sex became legal. Liquor clubs were approved. Abortion became legal. State governments became lottery operators.

Censorship ended. Other conservative taboos gradually disappeared.

Within my lifetime, morality flipflopped. Conservative thou-shalt-nots lost their grip on society. Liberals won – yet it happened so gradually that hardly anyone noticed.

For several decades, the strongest indicator of politics was church membership. White evangelicals voted overwhelmingly for Mitt Romney.

People who don't attend worship voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama. The latter became the largest group in the Democratic Party base. They’re generally more tolerant.

Today, survey after survey finds American church membership fading, while the young generation ignores religion. Many sociologists think the secular trend is unstoppable. People who say their faith is "none" already comprise one-fourth of the adult population – 56 million Americans – and they seem destined someday to be the largest segment. The social tide is flowing away from conservative fundamentalism and its Puritanical agenda.

All these factors support my friend's maxim that liberals always win.

The progressive worldview is called humanism – trying to make life better for all people – and it's a powerful current. In 1960, John F. Kennedy said in a famed speech: "If by a 'liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reaction, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties‌then I'm proud to say that I'm a liberal."

Now that progressives have won the battle for same-sex marriage and locked the Affordable Care Act into law, the never-ending struggle undoubtedly will shift to new fronts. Maybe legalization of marijuana or registration of pistols or free college will be the next big showdown.

Whatever comes, I’m ready to predict the eventual winner.

Amid all the chaos and confusion of daily life, through a thousand contradictory barrages, the struggle for a safer, fairer, more secure, more humane world never ceases. It’s a historic wave that began with The Enlightenment three centuries ago.

Thank heaven for progressive victories that keep on prevailing.

James Haught, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is editor emeritus of West Virginia’s largest newspaper, The Charleston Gazette-Mail.

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TACOMA ARTS COMMISSION ANNOUNCES 2015 AMOCAT ARTS AWARD WINNERS

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he Tacoma Arts Commission has announced this year’s AMOCAT Arts Award winners: University of Washington Tacoma (Arts Patron), Tacoma Public Library (Community Outreach by an Organization), and Connie K. Walle (Community Outreach by an Individual). The AMOCAT Arts Awards honor those who provide distinctive contributions to the arts in Tacoma.

Arts Patron Award – This award goes to University of Washington Tacoma for its ongoing commitment to serving and partnering with the greater Tacoma community. UW Tacoma’s contributions to the arts in Tacoma began 25 years ago at the campus’ founding, when 15 faculty members were hired to create an interdisciplinary liberal arts curriculum. Since then, the university’s impact on the community can be measured by the work of its faculty, students and alumni; a dense network of partnerships and collaborations; and a growing public art collection.

UW Tacoma’s connections to the Tacoma arts community include glass art classes hosted at the Museum of Glass, Tacoma School of the Arts classes held on campus, and a partnership with Spaceworks Tacoma to support creative entrepreneurs. Recent collaborations include an innovative community-based theater production

by UW Tacoma faculty and Toy Boat Theatre, and the hosting of a portion of the City of Tacoma and Tacoma Art Museum’s Pop-Up Art Putt! golf course.

UW Tacoma’s investment in developing the campus and Prairie Line Trail, with a commitment to aesthetic design and adaptive re-use, has encouraged a more walkable and beautiful community. The campus proudly displays a diverse art collection including works by Pablo Picasso, Dale Chihuly, Gerard Tsutakawa, Dawoud Bey, Buster Simpson and many others.

Community Outreach by an Organization Award – This award goes to Tacoma Public

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Library for its deep and ongoing commitment to creating opportunities for interactive and dynamic lifelong learning through the lens of arts and culture.

Tacoma’s public libraries are hubs of community activity where citizens can gather together to tell and create stories, listen to and create music, experience art, play chess, access the internet, and escape with a great film. The libraries bring readers and writers together to share a love of stories through book talks and signings, discussion groups, and the community-wide reading program: Tacoma Reads Together.

The Handforth Gallery at the Main Library provides an opportunity to experience visual art created by local, regional, national and international artists, as well as to hear artists talk about their work and learn more about the art forms through demonstrations.

The Tacoma Public Library provides free performing arts opportunities for the public including music concerts, puppet shows, magic acts, silent movies, jugglers, clowns, and acro-

bats. The Main Library’s StoryLab encourages students to expand their digital creativity through workshops in sound production, voiceover, film production and editing, beat-making, digital drawing, and song writing.

Community Outreach by an Individual Award – This award goes to Connie K. Walle for her commitment to elevating the literary arts in Tacoma and the South Sound. Walle is a poet, the founder and president of Puget Sound Poetry Connection (PSPC), and facilitator for the Distinguished Writer Series, which has been a staple of Tacoma’s literary arts community for 25 years and counting.

The Distinguished Writer Series provides a platform where poets of national regard share their work with the South Sound community, and where local writers of all levels and backgrounds can share their work in a constructive and supportive environment.

Under Walle’s leadership, PSPC has spearheaded multiple projects including literary publications, a teen writing contest and poetry workshops. She also hosts poetry critiques and

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PSPC, along with collaborating partners, are producing the first ever Tacoma Poetry Festival on October 16 and 17, 2015. “What do I get out of this? Great poetry.

Good friends. Good teachers,� said Walle. “Our group is the most generous and friendly reading in the state. No matter what the level of writing or reading, our people always make newbies feel welcome and encourage them to return.

I set pretty high standards for our group and somehow they find a way to exceed it.�

The Distinguished Writer Series meets at 7 p.m. on the second Friday of every month at King’s Bookstore (218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma). The event is free and open to the public.

All ages and levels of writing are welcome.

Awardees will be honored at the annual Tacoma Arts Month Opening Party on Oct. 1, from 6-9 p.m., at the historic Tacoma Armory (715 S. 11th St.). Mayor Marilyn Strickland will present the awards starting at 7:45 p.m.

In addition, there will be live entertainment at this event that includes music by Ken Jacobsen, contemporary dance by the BareFoot Collective, Samoan Village Dance by Asia Pacific Cultural Center, poetry by Tacoma Poet Laureate Cathy Nguyen, and more. Attendees can also explore a series of pop-up multimedia art exhibits by Christopher Jordan, Isaac Olsen, Jennifer Chushcoff, Nichole Rathburn, Janet Marcavage, Tim and April Norris, Terese Cuff, Elizabeth Gahan, Diana Leigh Surma and Judd Cohen. The event will include appetizers, dessert and a no-host bar.

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Some great examples of this are the trees at Cheney Stadium for which Goetz has been building up the soil for three years. “This year, after the third year, they didn’t have to put water bags on any of those trees this summer,� he said.

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located in Tacoma â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SOAR Academy, Green Dot Destiny Middle School and Summit: Olympus â&#x20AC;&#x201C; held a rally at Destiny to support one another, and try to have their voices heard by the legislature. Guest speakers at the rally included 25th District Sen. Bruce Dammeier and 25th District Rep. Hans Zeiger.

The three schoolsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; current goal is to energize their numbers and rally state lawmakers to come to some sort of compromise to keep the schools open. The ruling stems from the fact that since charter schools donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t answer to publicly elected school boards, they are not â&#x20AC;&#x153;commonâ&#x20AC;? schools and are thus ineligible to receive public funding.

Proponents of the charter school model say several alternatives exist, including getting funds from the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s general fund (which is not already earmarked for common schools) or amending the state constitution itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to as soon as possible. The legislature needs to pass whatever legislation is necessary to deal with this. I think thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strong bi-partisan support for charter schools. We saw this with the co-sponsorship the bill prior to the intuitive had,â&#x20AC;? Zeiger said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think now that charter schools have come online, the support has grown beyond what it was when the initiative passed and legislators, I think, have seen the good thing going on in the charter movement.â&#x20AC;?

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ACTIVISM. Students attending charter schools are quickly learning about political activism, as it is the avenue they are hoping to use to keep their schools open.

As for the fate of the three charter schools in Tacoma, all delivered a similar message at the rally: business will continue as usual. Despite their uncertain future, all three charter schools will remain open with the goal of educating their students. â&#x20AC;&#x153;SOAR will be providing everything that we said we would in terms of our vision, our mission and our academic program. We are excited to be able to do that work, and we are encouraged by the outpouring of support weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve received not just statewide, but nationwide,â&#x20AC;? founder of SOAR Academy Kristina Bellamy said.

The courts have been wrestling with the decision since July of 2013, when the Washington Education Association, League of Women Voters of Washington, the Washington Association of School Administrators and El Centro de la Raza filed a joint law-

suit against the state, claiming the initiative that enabled charter schools to form was siphoning money from public schools. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Charter schools steal money from our existing classrooms, and voters have no say in how these charter schools spend taxpayer funding,â&#x20AC;? said Kim Mead, president of the Washington Education Association in a statement.

The timing isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t great for the three Tacoma schools, which opened their doors last month, but leaders are confident they will be able to continue educating. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am absolutely frustrated beyond measure with the fact of when they issued their ruling. Nothing could have been more disruptive and create more turmoil for kids getting ready for school than when they did it. In my mind, that is unconscionable,â&#x20AC;?

Dammeier said.

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Parents, students and community friends all came out to support schools that they believe in. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Charter schools] take the time to give them [kids] the individual attention that they need in order to be successful in their own futures,â&#x20AC;? parent Natasha Lemkey said.

Despite the success, or lack of success, the Supreme Court made it clear that its decision was simply about the legality of the schools, not a comparison to the public system. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whether charter schools would enhance our stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public school system or appropriately address perceived shortcomings of that system are issues for the legislature and the voters,â&#x20AC;? Chief Justice Barbara Madsen wrote in the decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Under the act, money that is dedicated to common schools is unconstitutionally diverted to charter schools.â&#x20AC;?

For now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a waiting game for the charter schools that are opening across the state.

Rulings do not become effective for 20 days, and this has left the schools scrambling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My job is to make sure that we keep our head in the game with curriculum instruction. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want our kids to skip one beat. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve obviously seen a side of political activism in school, which is great, but at the same time math, reading, writing and all the basics still need to happen. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to operate business as usual. We are not slowing down and we are not going to let this affect what happens in the classroom.

We are going to keep things as normal as possible for our kids,â&#x20AC;? Genny Cadena, principal of Destiny Middle School said.

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ChineSe PreSident Xi JinPing to viSit tAComA Twenty-one years after he personally witnessed the establishment of Tacoma's Sister Cities relationship with Fuzhou as Chairman of the Standing Committee of Fuzhou Municipal People's Congress, Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to Tacoma on Sept.

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t Weather After taking care of some pre-flight necessities, like notifying the Federal Aviation Administration, the science team was ready for the balloon’s take-off. “We counted down from 10, released it and then just hoped,” Newton said, noting that he made some predictions of the balloon’s trajectory based on things like how much helium was used to inflate it, the size of the balloon and weather conditions.

Newton said his best guess was that it would land somewhere in Auburn.

“We launched it, waited and tracked it on a live feed in class. We watched as it traveled to about where Dash Point is then it disappeared for about an hour and a half…out of the realm of communication. I looked at other attempts at this experiment and they can fly hundreds of miles away and end up in any number of difficult environments to retrieve the payload from.”

The balloon continued to ascend until it hit the window of 31,000-39,000 meters above the earth (more than 100,000 feet or 20-plus miles) then it warmed, burst and floated to the ground with the help of the attached parachute. “We waited and waited and sure enough, we got a signal in Auburn,” Newton said. “We raced out there and watched it travel over SR-167 and hoped all would be well to land, and it was.” The balloon landed about two miles from where Newton predicted, a mere 10 miles away from its launching point, near a

have both benefited from a variety of educational, cultural and sports exchanges, and Tacoma has hosted at least 30 delegations from Fuzhou," said Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland.

"We look forward to President Xi Jinping's visit to strengthen our educational, cultural and business relationships with China."

A delegation from Fuzhou visited Tacoma in 2010 to guide

and assist with the construction of the Fuzhou Ting in the Tacoma Chinese Reconciliation Park. The Ting was completed the following year and has since become a unique landmark and cultural attraction on Tacoma's waterfront.

During his visit to Tacoma, President Xi will visit Lincoln High School with his wife Peng Liyuan.

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the Affiliated High School of Fuzhou Institute of Education signed a memorandum of understanding in 2008 to promote faculty, student, cultural and sports exchanges. Several Lincoln High School teachers and Tacoma school district administrators have visited Fuzhou for professional exchanges and to teach during breaks. Lincoln High School also has an active Sister City Club.

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warehouse in wetland space. “I bushwhacked my way through cattails and there it was with everything intact. We found it about three and half hours after we launched it.”

Taking the balloon back to the classroom, the students found everything in great working order except that the hand warmers used to keep the GoPro temperature-controlled had overheated and caused the camera to shut down midflight. Newton said this goes hand-in-hand with conducting such a science experiment and good to know for the next time. But what was captured on video more than satisfied the young scientists.

“I’m pretty happy about the results,” Newton said. “We got to see some amazing views of the landscape and curvature of the earth and incredible views of Pierce County.” The next project is to create a video of what the balloon recorded on its journey.

Newton said experiments like these do wonders in grabbing the students’ attention and their imaginations. “I hope it captures the heart, mind and passion of the students, and engages them so much that they are going to the fall in love with science, and go forth in their lives to fill in the gaps and make the effort to be the scientists they could be.”

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BELLARMINE SHOWS TRUE GRIT IN OT LOSS TO RANKED GONZAGA PREP

PHOTOS BY RAIMUNDO JURADO

NO BRAKES. (top) Junior quarterback

Joey Sinclair threw for three touchdowns and 184 yards and added another touchdown with his feet. (middle) Senior 2014 Tacoma Weekly All-City running back Dionte Simon carried the load for Lincoln racking up 290 yards rushing on 33 carries, including two touchdowns. (bottom) Lincoln's big fellas had reason to celebrate, holding Puyallup to just 195 yards total offense.

LINCOLN CONTINUES TO IMPRESS WITH 41-16 WIN AT PUYALLUP

By Justin Gimse jgimse@tacomaweekly.com

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ife in general, and sports in particular, is filled with clichés, and even though they are easy to fall back on, they are also true for a reason. There are many clichés that tell us “it’s not over until it’s over,” or to keep pressing on and good things will happen. When the Gonzaga Prep Bullpups travelled from Spokane to take on the Bellarmine Prep Lions on Friday, Sept. 11, it was a cavalcade of clichés as Gonzaga rallied from a 21-point deficit to ultimately win the game in overtime.

u See BELLARMINE / page A15

PHOTOS BY DAVID TURNIPSEED

SLUGFEST. (top, clockwise) Junior quarterback Christian Moore goes

airborne for six points. Moore also passed for two touchdowns. Senior running back Ahmad Lewis carried the ball an astonishing 44 times for 205 yards and a touchdown. Senior receiver Blake Wilcoxen carries Bullpups for a score. Senior linebacker Erik Glueck prepares for impact. Senior lineman G. Paul Gicewicz and Glueck team up for a Lion sandwich.

It was a festive night in Puyallup as the Washington State Fair opened its gates again to thrill seekers and scone critics. At nearby Sparks Stadium, the atmosphere was pure electricity as the hometown Vikings hosted the dangerous Lincoln Abes from Tacoma. A sizable and loud contingent of fans for both schools was on hand, and the stage was set for a big, non-league showdown.

In what was supposed to be a pretty decent test for the new-look, revamped Lincoln Abes, the visitors played as if Sparks was their own home turf as they rolled over, around and through Puyallup for a stunning 41-16 victory on Sept. 11.

With just two games before the regular 3A Narrows League season starts, the Abes have begun their first season under new head coach Masaki Matsumoto in surprising fashion. In games against Roosevelt of Portland and Puyallup, Lincoln has outscored its opponents by a combined 95-23. Things will continue to look promising for the Abes as they host winless, but tough, Capital on Friday, Sept. 18 at Lincoln Bowl.

The season began with several question marks hanging out there for area football fans.

How was the team going to rebound after losing so many top-notch players? Were they going to gel with the new coaching staff? Is there any way this season could be a continuation of recent Abes’ success, or is it time to go back to the drawing board?

It’s only been two games so far, but for the Abes, who are ranked in several statewide polls, they’ve got the look right now that says “nothing has changed.” If that’s truly the case, look out Narrows league.

What went down in Puyallup looked like a football clinic put on by Lincoln. The Abes outgained the Vikings 549 to 195 in total yardage and Puyallup is actually a decent football team. Throw in the fact that Lincoln defenders somehow dropped a total of five Puyallup passes that were surefire interceptions, and it’s easy to see how this game looked more lopsided than 25-point winning margin.

After striking quickly on big plays in their first game, the Abes pounded on the Vikings with some impressive, long drives that ate up both yardage and time off the clock.

Lincoln forced Puyallup to punt on the Vikings’ first possession and went to work on their own 12-yard line. Running back Dionte Simon and quarterback Joey Sinclair picked their way down the field for a 15-play, 88-yard scoring drive, culminating in a fake to Simon u See LINCOLN / page A15

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GiG HArbor PutS StAdium to tHe teSt

PHOTOS BY ROCKY ROSS

tiGerS. (left) Sophomore Kiara Rivera (10) congratulates freshman Kenzie Burks (11) on her first half goal. (middle) Junior forward Sam Putnam gets her head into the game. (right) Freshman forward Nayia Rivera takes control.

By Justin Gimse jgimse@tacomaweekly.com

It’s still early, but it’s been a long road thus far for the Stadium Tiger girls’ soccer team. Playing in their first home game at Stadium Bowl Tuesday night, Sept. 15, the Tigers and their head coach Adam Becker were happy to actually have some home turf to play on. Following the discovery of three sinkholes a few weeks ago, Stadium Bowl was rendered off-limits to the football and soccer teams alike, and both squads had to scramble to find appropriate practice fields.

As the season was about to begin, the Tigers didn’t even know if they would, or could, step foot onto the field turf at Stadium Bowl again. After investigators were unable to find any additional sinkholes, the three were fixed to playable status, and things were going to be back to normal for the Tigers.

So to christen what would be their home opener, Stadium hosted perennial

powerhouse Gig Harbor. The Tides, fresh off a 2014 campaign that saw them reach the 4A state semifinals, came to play and brought a squad with experience, speed and size. With several new, young faces on the Tigers’ side, Stadium would be hard-pressed to keep up with Gig Harbor.

Despite losing to the Tides 4-1, the takeaway for Stadium was positive, considering the physical play of the contest and their ability to get some strong chances against a stingy Gig Harbor defense.

After a surprisingly even-sided match in the first half, Gig Harbor would take a 2-1 lead into halftime. The Tides jumped out 2-0 in the first 17 minutes of play following goals by juniors Kaysie Bruce and Leahi Manthei. With just under six minutes remaining in the first stanza, Stadium freshman Kenzie Burks chased a low, cross pass in front of the goal, and with a defender on her hip, put a toe on the ball and punched it into the right side of the net past a startled Gig Harbor goalkeeper.

The second half would be a different

affair as the Tides scored less than a minute in as Manthei notched her second goal of the match and Gig Harbor led 3-1 with a long second half remaining.

Stadium had their best chance to claw back into the match 18 minutes into the second half when Gig Harbor was called for a hand ball just outside of the top of the penalty box. Stadium senior Kristi Williams blasted a free kick that was blocked by the Tides’ defensive wall, but the ball bounced right back to Williams. With the defense closing in, Williams got off a strong, but rushed, shot that skipped low and just left of the far goalpost. It would be the Tigers best chance of the second half.

With 12 minutes left to play, Manthei put a header on the ball, following two ricochets in the box off of a Gig Harbor corner kick for her third goal and hat trick.

Gig Harbor would settle in defensively the remainder of the game and left Stadium Bowl with a hard-fought 4-1 victory.

After the match, Stadium head coach Adam Becker felt his team put in a strong

performance and was optimistic about his team’s chances for the rest of the season.

“We have a lot of new girls,” said Becker. “We’re working on a lot of things.

To be fair, the result is pretty much where I thought it was going to be. They’re (Gig Harbor) a really good side. There’s a lot of room for improvement, so I’m still pretty confident we’ll end up over .500 and in the top-four for the playoffs.”

Becker was also glad to have the home field issue cleared up for his team.

“No excuses or anything, but we’ve been up at Jason Lee, training on half of a small, mod-sized field,” said Becker. “And then we get on the big field and it’s completely different. Your positioning. Your placement. The weight of the passes, the weight of the shots, everything’s different.

So it is so nice to be back home. Not only because it’s a big field, but look where we’re at. It’s beautiful.”

Stadium (1-2-1) returns to action Tuesday, Sept. 22 when they host the Olympia Bears at 7:15 p.m.

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SEPT. 17-26

THURSDAY, SEPT. 17 – VOLLEYBALL Olympia vs. Bellarmine Prep Bellarmine HS – 4:45 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 – FOOTBALL Capital vs. Lincoln Lincoln Bowl – 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 – FOOTBALL Shelton vs. Henry Foss Mt. Tahoma Stadium – 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 – FOOTBALL North Thurston vs. Wilson Stadium Bowl – 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 – FOOTBALL Stadium vs. Bellarmine Bellarmine HS – 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 – FOOTBALL South Bend vs. Tacoma Baptist Curtis Viking Stadium – 7 p.m.

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FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 – VOLLEYBALL Whitworth vs. PLU Pacific Lutheran – 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 18 – VOLLEYBALL Whitman vs. UPS Puget Sound – 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 – SOCCER Women – Lewis & Clark vs. UPS Puget Sound – 12 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 – SOCCER Women – Willamette vs. PLU Pacific Lutheran – 12 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 – SOCCER Men – Pacific (OR) vs. UPS Puget Sound – 2:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 – SOCCER Men – George Fox vs. PLU Pacific Lutheran – 2:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 – VOLLEYBALL Whitman vs. PLU Pacific Lutheran – 5 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 – VOLLEYBALL Whitworth vs. UPS Puget Sound – 6 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 19 – FOOTBALL Iwaco vs. Life Christian Harry Lang Stadium – 7 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 – SOCCER Women – Linfield vs. UPS Puget Sound – 12 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 – SOCCER Women – Lewis & Clark vs. PLU Pacific Lutheran – 12 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 – SOCCER Men – George Fox vs. UPS Puget Sound – 2:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20 – SOCCER Men – Pacific (OR) vs. PLU Pacific Lutheran – 2:30 p.m.

TUESDAY, SEPT. 22 – SOCCER Girls – Olympia vs. Stadium Stadium Bowl – 7:15 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23 – VOLLEYBALL Yelm vs. Stadium Stadium HS – 4:45 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 – VOLLEYBALL West Valley vs. Bellarmine Prep Bellarmine HS – 5 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 – FOOTBALL Wilson vs. Mt. Tahoma Mt. Tahoma Stadium – 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 – FOOTBALL Gig Harbor vs. Stadium Stadium Bowl – 7 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPT. 25 – FOOTBALL Ilwaco vs. Chief Leschi Chief Leschi Stadium – 7 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 26 – FOOTBALL Trinity (TX) vs. PLU Sparks Stadium – 1 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 26 – FOOTBALL Orcas Island vs. Tacoma Baptist Curtis Viking Stadium – 1 p.m.

TACOMA STARS ROSTER BEGINS TO TAKE SHAPE WITH MORE LOCAL ADDITIONS The Tacoma Stars have signed striker Mark Lee and midfielder Raphael Cox for the 2015-16 season, Stars Head Coach and General Manager Darren Sawatzky has announced.

The pair of local products join a roster crowded with northwest talent in preparation for the Stars first full season in the Major Arena Soccer League.

Lee, 27, spent four years competing with the Sounders U-23 team in the Premier Development League, where he earned PDL First Team honors multiple times, before joining the Stars last season. Prior to his time with the Sounders U-23 club, Lee played one season for the Kitsap Pumas, also a member of the PDL. “Lee is a pit bull, and I have enjoyed having him on my teams,” Sawatzky said. “You can play Mark in a multitude of roles and he gets the job done with every task. This should be a good year for him playing the position he loves indoors.

His leadership will help our young team come along.”

Lee played collegiately for Northern Idaho College and Pierce College, and originally hails from Puyallup, Washington.

“I am excited about being part of the organization and playing at the highest level of indoor soccer,” Lee said.

Cox, 28, played one season with Highline Community College before transferring to the University of Washington prior to his sophomore year. Coming out of college, he was drafted into Major League Soccer by Real Salt Lake, where he won the MLS Cup in his first professional season. The Tacoma native has spent time in the NASL with both the Tampa Bay Rowdies and the Atlanta Silverbacks. He is currently playing for the Charlotte Independence, and will join Tacoma following the conclusion of the USL season.

“Raph’s resume speaks for itself and we love signing winners,” Sawatzky said. “Raph gives us another fast attacking player with good experience. I expect to see him in the score column most nights.”

These two signings come on the heels of three more Puget Sound signees less than a week before. Defender Chase Hanson, midfielder Troy Peterson, and midfielder Jamael Cox have also been inked for the 2015-16 season.

Hanson, 23, joins the Stars after a collegiate career that included three years at Seattle University and one year at Barry University in Florida. Hanson also played for Sawatzky in the Sounders Academy and each summer for the past three years with the 2015 Western Conference Champion Sounders U23 team. Hanson’s father, Dave, is the head coach of the Thomas Jefferson high school squad that won the 2013 WIAA 4A state championship and has worked with Sawatzky at the Highline Premier Football Club.

Peterson, 23, graduated from the College of Charleston this winter after playing four collegiate division one seasons.

Peterson was an all-star midfielder in the Sounders Academy after playing club soccer at Washington Premier FC in Tacoma, where he spent time playing youth soccer under former Tacoma Star greats Gary Heale, Jimmy McAllister, and Ralph Black. Peterson was a stalwart midfielder for the Sounders U23 Western Conference Championship team this summer.

Cox, 23, comes to the Stars after playing this past summer for the Burlingame Dragons in the PDL (USL Premier Development League). Cox played local club soccer before working his way into the Sounders Academy and the Sounders U23 team. Chasing the dream on the road less traveled, Cox went to the Glasgow Rangers of the Scottish Premier League looking to sign a contract. Cox lost an opportunity after performing well in the trial when the Scottish giant went into arbitration. Cox eventually signed with the Tampa Bay Rowdies for one NASL season before returning to the northwest.

Season ticket packages, group outings, and suite offerings for the Tacoma Stars 2015 season are available now. To purchase, call 1-844-STARS-TIME or visit the Stars online at www.tacomastars.com. The most up-to-date news and notes about the Stars leading up to the start of the 2015 season can be found by following the Stars on Twitter (@ TacomaStarsSC) or liking the team on Facebook.

FOUR LUTES NAMED NWC STUDENT-ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Following a weekend that included six team victories and an individual meet championship, a quartet of Pacific Lutheran student-athletes from three different teams earned Northwest Conference Student-Athlete of the Week honors.

Freshman Brad Hodkinson was named Men's Cross Country Student-Athlete of the Week after beating out a field of 48 total runners – most NCAA Div. II athletes from Central Washington and Western Washington – to win the 6k men's race at the CWU Apple Ridge Run on Saturday.

Hodkinson was the only runner to break 20 minutes with a time of 19:41, beating out the second-place competitor by 25 seconds in only his second collegiate race.

Fellow freshman Chloe Epker made her mark at the Puget Sound Premiere, earning Volleyball Student-Athlete of the Week honors after helping lead the Lutes to a 3-1 weekend performance. Epker totaled a team-best 58 kills and hit .299 to go with 32 digs and seven total blocks for the weekend. She had 17, 19 and 16 kills in wins over Linfield, Texas-Dallas and Puget Sound, respectively, and had a weekend-high 11 digs vs. Linfield. She joins teammate Lucy

Capron as NWC volleyball honorees, as Lucy received the recognition last week.

After completing a perfect nonconference schedule, the PLU women's soccer team swept conference weekly honors for the second straight week. Sophomore forward Machaela Graddy earned Offensive S-A of the Week recognition after scoring three goals across two matches for the Lutes. Graddy scored once and assisted on another goal in Friday's 4-0 home-opening win over Hamline, and she followed that with two goals in Saturday's 4-0 win over perennial SCIAC power California Lutheran.

While Graddy either scored or assisted on 50 percent of the Lutes' eight goals over the weekend, junior Kelly White earned Defensive S-A of the Week honors after helping anchor a Lute defensive effort that led to PLU's third and fourth shutouts to open the season. The Lutes defense has not allowed a goal this season, marking the first time in program history PLU has begun a year blanking four straight opponents. Forward Kaylie Rozell and goalkeeper Takara Mitsui earned NWC recognition last week.

The PLU volleyball team hosts fellow 2014 NWC co-champion Whitworth on Friday, Sept. 18 at 7 p.m., while the Lute cross country squads head to Seattle the following day for the Sundodger Invitational.

PLU DROPS A CLOSE ONE ON THE ROAD AGAINST CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN California Lutheran scored the final 20 points of the game and shut out the Pacific Lutheran offense in the second half as the Kingsmen defeated the Lutes 30-26 in the 2015 football opener for both teams Saturday, Sept. 12 in Thousand Oaks.

California Lutheran staked the four-point lead with just over three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, and Jon Schaub and the PLU offense took possession at their own 30 needing a touchdown to win. A personal-foul penalty helped sustain the drive, and Schaub completed a 14-yard pass on third-and-12 to Ben Welch with less than two minutes to go.

But the drive stalled at the CLU 37-yard line, when Juston Lind couldn't hold onto Schaub's fourth-down pass attempt with 42 seconds on the clock.

In his PLU starting debut, Schaub completed 25 of 43 pass attempts for 308 yards and two touchdowns, with Welch catching 11 of those passes for 109 yards. Schaub also rushed for a touchdown on 11 carries, while Darin Hardgrove led the Lutes' ground effort with 46 yards to go with 50 yards and a touchdown through the air.

Cal Lutheran got on the board first, as Michael Butler and Trever Wood connected on a 75-yard touchdown pass on CLU's first play from scrimmage. A pass from Butler tied the game a few minutes later, as Carson Ketter returned an interception 30 yards for a PLU score. The Lutes jumped out ahead in the first minute of the second quarter, as Schaub carried the ball in from one yard out to cap a 10-play, 76-yard drive.

Schaub connected with Beau Lockmer from 15 yards out on the Lutes' next drive to make it 19-7 before CLU pulled within nine on a 37-yard field goal by Chris Taylor. On the first play of PLU's ensuing drive, Schaub found Hardgrove from 46 yards out for a 26-10 halftime lead, and the Lutes looked like they might pull away to a season-opening victory.

Cal Lutheran had other plans, however, and the Kingsmen slowly chipped away at the Lutes' lead. Isaac Seymour scored on a two-yard run to finish off a 15-play, 75-yard drive late in the third quarter to make it a nine-point game.

Eight minutes later CJ Washington scored on a one-yard drive to make it 26-23.

The game-winning touchdown for California Lutheran came on a third-and-6 pass from Adam Friederichsen to Wood down the left sideline, capping the comeback and giving the Kingsmen what proved to be the four-point margin of victory. Washington finished the night with 122 yards rushing for the Kingsmen, while Wood tallied 136 yards and two touchdowns on only three receptions.

PLU has a bye next week before the Lutes host Trinity Sept. 26 in the 2015 home opener at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m.

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LUTES KNOCK OFF LOGGERS FOR A 3-1 PREMIERE TOURNEY FINISH The Pacific Lutheran University volleyball team won both its matches Saturday, Sept. 12, defeating both the University of Dallas-Texas and Puget Sound in four sets during the second day of the Puget Sound Premiere Tournament at Names Family Court.

The Lutes beat Dallas-Texas with set scores of 25-21, 23-25, 28-26, and 25-21 in a tense match that had fans on the edge of their seats. The third set was particularly eventful as the Lutes held the Comets at set point and came back four points to tie up the score 24-24. The set went took extra points, but the Lutes sealed the 28-26 victory with a powerful kill from Roshel Muzzall on the right side. The fourth set saw 14 tie scores, and it was a battle for every point.

PLU (6-3) returned to the court in the evening to play Northwest Conference rival and neighbor Puget Sound.

The Lutes won the match with set scores of 25-21, 25-17, 22-25, and 25-11. The first two sets were close competition with five tie scores in the first and two lead changes in the second. The Loggers came out strong to win the third set, but the Lutes shut them down with a 14-point win in the fourth.

PLU head coach Kevin Aoki was thrilled about his team's performance for the day, saying that "we played high level volleyball today in beating Texas-Dallas and Puget Sound.

We were able to get strong performances from everyone."

Lucy Capron racked up 23 kills in the Dallas-Texas match, with Chloe Epker tallying 19 and Muzzall earning 10. Michaela Edgers led the team with seven blocks, and Kendle Valade-Nunez had 43 assists. In the UPS match Epker led the Lutes with 16 kills, while Capron added 15.

Kylai Cooley had 23 digs, and Valade-Nunez had another 43 assists.

The team was not only excited about their victories, but also about how they worked together to overcome hard points in the matches.

"Overall, we pulled together as a team," Capron said.

"Yesterday we struggled a lot and we were just six individual players, but today we were one team."

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The Bullpups were the ranked team, as high as fourth in the state in one poll, but you would never have guessed that after the first quarter performance of the home standing Lions. Bellarmine took the opening kickoff and went right down the field, with the drive culminating in a 35-yard touchdown pass from Christian Moore to Blake Wilcoxen. After the Lions held the Bullpups to a three and out possession, they scored again, in one play this time, when senior running back Ahmad Lewis rumbled for 77 yards to the end zone. Lewis had a huge game and ended up with 208 yards on the night. The Bellarmine defense was stout once again, this time intercepting a Liam Bell pass. The Bellarmine offense went right down the field, with this drive ending in one yard sneak by quarterback Moore, and as the dust settled on the first quarter, the Lions were up 21-0.

Gonzaga seemed to settle into the game as the second quarter started.

They made their first defensive stop of the game, and then scored on their next possession when Evan Weaver took the ball on a 20 yard romp. Weaver is a rare combination of defensive lineman and running back, and he would have much to do with the outcome of the game from both positions. Later in the quarter he added a 21-yard run for a touchdown. At the half, the Bullpups had made a game out of it, trailing 21-14.

If you ever played electric football, you might have had one of those fields on which it was more likely that a team would score going in one direction.

This game was like that as the entire first half scoring happened in the west end zone. Gonzaga changed that less than three minutes into the second half as Liam Bell threw to Ryan Gross for a five yard score, and the east end-zone was finally dented. It also knotted up the score at 21. Gonzaga had completed the comeback.

The teams traded punts for most of the remainder of the quarter, but the Lions got things going toward the end of the period, along with some

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help from two personal foul penalties against the Bullpups, and with half a minute to go in the third, Moore found Wilcoxen again, this time from six yards out, and Bellarmine was back on top.

Gonzaga wasted no time on their next possession, moving down the field with purpose, and Weaver scored from a yard out for his third TD of the game.

Bellarmine then took their time moving down the field, and when their drive stalled out on the Gonzaga 17, it looked like a field goal would put them back on top. However, Evan Weaver rose up again, this time from his position on the defensive line, to block the field goal attempt. Each team had one more possession to try to score in regulation, but as the fourth quarter ended the game was even at 28.

Bellarmine had the first possession in the overtime period and really wasn't able to mount a threat. Gonzaga, feeling the momentum, scored in 4 plays, with Mason Plese taking it in from 2 yards out to seal the victory for the Bullpups by a score of 34-28.

Bellarmine's next game is Sept. 18 when they host their crosstown rival Stadium Tigers. The Tigers are fresh off of a stunning 30-16 victory over the Wilson Rams Sept. 11 at Stadium Bowl. It was the first win for Stadium since Nov. 11, 2013 when they knocked off Wilson in a 2-0 defensive showdown.

From page A12

and a Sinclair sprint to the pile-on for a seven-yard touchdown. Lincoln led 7-0 with 3:43 remaining in the first quarter.

The teams then traded drives that ended in punts, which resulted in Puyallup starting a scoring drive at the Lincoln 44-yard line just before the end of the first quarter. The Vikings pushed the ball down to the 16-yard line before the Abe defense would allow no more. Puyallup’s Zach Munizza drilled an impressive 34-yard field goal through the uprights and the Lincoln lead was cut to 7-3 with 11:42 remaining in the second quarter.

The Abes began moving the ball down the field on their next possession before Sinclair was intercepted on a deep ball down to the Puyallup 22-yard line. Puyallup took over and went in reverse in the face of the Lincoln defense and had to punt the ball back to the Abes after three plays.

Taking over on their own 48-yard line, the Abes went to work again on an extended drive. A defensive encroachment penalty saved the Lincoln drive on fourth down at the Puyallup 27-yard line, and the Abes made the most of it. After pushing the ball to within a half-yard of the goal-line, Sinclair went with a quick snap, handed the ball to Simon and the senior crashed through the Puyallup defensive line for a touchdown. Lincoln now led 14-3 with 5:06 remaining in the second quarter.

On the following possession, Puyallup put together their best drive of the game.

Starting from their own 35-yard line, the Vikings mixed a handful of runs along with two 15-yard completions to arrive just one yard outside of the end-zone. Quarterback Nathaniel Holcomb took the snap and went over the right tackle for what would be Puyallup’s only offensive touchdown of the game.

Following a two-point conversion that was stuffed by the Lincoln defense, the Abes’ lead was now 14-9 with 2:32 remaining in the first half.

Not to be outdone, the Abes would follow with a 10-play, 58-yard drive to close-out the first half. With the clock running toward zeros, Sinclair took a snap from the 23-yard line, facing fourth and 22. Puyallup swarmed into the backfield and Sinclair stepped up into the pocket, freeing himself up for a second. Just as the defense closed in, the junior slung the ball into the end-zone as the scoreboard reached zero, finding senior receiver

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Troy Petersohn in stride, just as he crossed the goal-line. Lincoln would take a 21-9 lead into halftime.

After receiving the second half kickoff, the Abes went to work again and looked impressive, driving the ball down to the Puyallup 13-yard line in eight plays. On the ninth play, lightning struck for Puyallup as the snap few over the head of Sinclair. Puyallup linebacker Tucker Hanson scooped up the ball at the 32-yard line and rambled down the field, leaping over a would-be tackle at the Lincoln 15-yard line, to score what would be the final points for Puyallup. Lincoln’s lead was now 21-16 with 7:47 remaining in the third quarter.

Picking up where they left off, Lincoln would follow with a nine-play, 65-yard drive.

Facing third and four at the Puyallup 20-yard line, Sinclair handed the ball off to Simon, who found his opening, ate it up quickly, and bolted to the end-zone untouched for his second touchdown. Lincoln now led 28-16 with 4:13 remaining in the third quarter.

On the subsequent kick-off, the Abes successfully converted a pooch-kick that was recovered by sophomore Tristian Kwon.

The Abes took over on the Puyallup 33-yard line and drove the ball down to the five. Facing third and goal, Sinclair connected with senior receiver Alvin Johnson on a slant into the end-zone for a touchdown. Lincoln now led 34-16 with 2:02 remaining in the third quarter.

Puyallup couldn’t catch a break on its next possession as defensive back Mushawn Knowles forced a fumble that was recovered by sophomore linebacker Mahlon Slaughter.

The Abes would then run nine plays before their drive stalled at the Puyallup 15-yard line and they turned the ball back over.

With less than seven minutes left in the game, Lincoln took possession of the ball again at their own 12-yard line. One handoff to Simon and the Abes were in back in Puyallup territory following a dazzling 50-yard run. Four plays later, Sinclair would find senior receiver Tony Archie down the middle of the field for the final score of the game.

Despite tight coverage, Archie was able to go up high and snatch the ball for the touchdown and the 41-16 final tally.

Simon finished the day with 290 yards rushing on 33 carries with two touchdowns.

Sinclair finished the day with 15 completions on 28 attempts for 184 yards and three touchdowns. Johnson had seven catches for 74 yards and a touchdown. Archie finished with five catches for 82 yards and a touchdown.

The Abes host Capital on Friday, Sept. 18 at Lincoln Bowl. Kick-off is set for 7 p.m.

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ANGER MANAGEMENT. “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” vet Lewis Black will have plenty to vent on Sept. 27 at the Pantages Theater.

By Ernest A. Jasmin ejasmin@tacomaweekly.com

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he angriest man in comedy is headed to Tacoma. Lewis Black – the Grammy Awardwinning comedian, best known for his “Back in Black” segments on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” – will bring his interactive “The Rant is Due: Part Deux” tour to Broadway Center’s Pantages Theater on Sunday, Sept. 27.

Tacoma Weekly caught up with Black last week to talk about his need to vent, why he flips fans “the bird” and – perhaps most importantly – to size up the new guy taking over his show.

TACOMA WEEKLY: So “The Daily Show” is about to ramp up again with Trevor Noah at the helm. Are you still part of the crew?

BLACK: I’m still part of it. I’ve got nowhere to go.

TW: People don’t know Noah so much in the States.

What are your early impressions, and do you have any insight into how the show might change?

BLACK: It’s gonna change because it’s Jon’s show. It was really his show, and it all came from him in a sense.

It was executed by a really great team, and a lot of that team has stayed on. They have a ton of ideas, and Trevor is really willing to listen to those and open it up, so it’ll be different. What’s most important, I think, is it’s still gonna be funny. That’s all you can ask for in this veil of tears.

(He chuckles.)

TW: That is the foundation.

BLACK: The thing about television is you get the show up, and then you work it out, and much more in that case than in the case of sitcoms and stuff.

TW: You probably have more insight into that than anyone. People forget that Jon wasn’t the first host, and that you are actually the biggest constant on the show.

BLACK: I’ve been there since the first couple of weeks.

TW: How did you first get involved, and how long did you think this gig would last?

BLACK: I didn’t have any idea except that I knew we were in the sweet position that Comedy Central needed something. We had some very good people. A. Whitney Brown (of “Saturday Night Live” fame) was there from the very beginning, and Lizz Winstead was the producer and a really smart and funny lady. Another friend of mine,

Hank Gallo, was a producer there at that point.

Look, I had pitched a show of that type. Any number of comics had pitched a show in one fashion or another like that, and it seemed like that’s when timing paid off.

TW: Do you think it could have turned into the same kind of cultural phenomenon if Jon hadn’t stepped in early on (replacing original host, Craig Kilborn)?

BLACK: The thing I’ve heard ever since I started doing this … for a living is timing is everything, and it really was. It wouldn’t have become the phenomenon that Jon made it if we had started 10 years before.

It was right in the cross hairs of moving from the industrial age to the technological age, and going into a war that was a rerun of the Vietnam War, only in the desert.

TW: We know the things that drive you batty, along those lines, because of your standup. What are things that make you hopeful in that regard?

BLACK: What makes me hopeful is … the next generation and the generation after them. There will be some sort of grasp of really how to make this technology work for you as opposed to it beating the (snot) out of you, or addicting you, or sending you into some egomaniacal state where you think every photo that is shot of you must be posted somewhere in the universe.

You already saw it with gay marriage. Those kids had already lived a generation of it, and they were like, “What the (heck) is the matter with you people?” So I think a lot of the social nonsense that I have lived through will go by the wayside. Once the dinosaurs pass, I think things will improve. I mean, you can’t have people my age wandering around saying there’s no such thing as global warming.

That’s insane.

You know what else gives me hope? That Pope (Francis.) I love the Pope.

TW: Oh, the new pope.

BLACK: Yeah, and this is how non-partisan I am. I’m Jewish.

TW: That’s pretty non-partisan.

BLACK: (He laughs.) I think that he’s really somethin’.

He’s a statesman, and we don’t have that. We haven’t seen anybody just speak plain English about the world in a really long time.

TW: Do you think of what you do in those “Back in Black” segments as a personae that you put on, a la Stephen Colbert? Or do that many things really drive you nuts?

BLACK: Those things drive me nuts, but if I acted like that all the time I’d be dead. When I have time off, I stew about them, then I finally get to let it rip.

TW: I just imagined a unique problem you might have.

I wonder if there are ever times when you’re genuinely about to flip out, but people are laughing at you because they think you’re joking.

BLACK: Yeah, but that’s fine. (He chuckles.) What’s really insane is people give me something (to) autograph, and they say, “Would you write, ‘f--- you?’” Or would you take a photo with me and pop the bird? Well, yeah. I mean, who’da thought?

TW: What about your early comedy? Were you always the angry guy?

BLACK: No, no, I couldn’t figure it out for a long time.

So I was telling stories and mostly stories about my sex life when I started out.

By my late ‘20s I was transitioning, but I was doing it on the side. I was really writing plays, so this was a way I could write stuff and get it out there. My chops were half-assed at best.

TW: I did read that some of your earliest comedic experiences were in the theater - like you were the standup comedian, then there was a play.

BLACK: We rented a room, three of us together in New York. We did a lot of one-act plays and a lot of shows, and I opened for every show. That was really what helped in terms of the transition of my nervousness onstage.

TW: That seems like a tough gig unless you’re opening specifically for a comedy.

BLACK: Actually, it was good because nobody expected people to laugh. The more I was up there, the funnier I got really, partly because of the expectation. It’s like when people go on these retreats and the CEO arrives to speak and the expectation is it’s just gonna be dry. Then he’s got two funny jokes at the beginning.

TW: So you’ve just gotta set the bar low.

BLACK: Yes. TW: So you’re bringing your show here, and it’s called “The Rant is Due, Part Deux.”

BLACK: Yeah, we did “The Rant is Due” tour, and then I liked “The Rant is Due” so much we were gonna continue it.

At the end of each show I have a Q & A with the audience. So the audience is actually told they can write

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THE THINGS WE LIKE ONE ODE TO AUTUMN Starting Sept. 28, the W.W. Seymour Botanical Conservatory at Wright Park will be showing its 2015 grand floral exhibit “An Ode to Autumn.” With it will be a learning series: “How Plants Work” on Sept. 29, 6-7 p.m.; “Pruning Demystified” on Oct. 1, 6-7 p.m.; and “Tiny Worlds: A Terrarium Workshop” on Oct. 3, noon to 2 p.m. $3 suggested donation. Info: www.seymourconservatory.org.

TWO GUY MENDILOW A queen who runs away with her slave. Brides who abandon their weddings and join a ship full of sailors. Men who go courting, only to get tossed down a well. These fantastic yarns spring from Ladino tradition, the songs and stories carried by Sephardic Jews when they were evicted from Spain and settled on the coasts of Greece and Turkey in the 15th

century. Multiinstrumentalist, singer and arranger Guy Mendilow and his four musicians will bring this world to audiences in the concert “Tales from the Forgotten Kingdom.” The free performance will be held at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 in Kilworth Memorial Chapel at University of Puget Sound. No tickets are required and everyone is welcome.

THREE FALL INTO FITNESS Get a healthy dose of motivation at this free health and wellness fair sponsored by Metro Parks Tacoma.

Participate in fitness class demos and browse community resource booths. Saturday, Sept. 19, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at People’s Center, 1602 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Way.

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FALL GARDEN FESTIVAL On Sunday, Sept.

20, the Point Defiance Pagoda will host a fall garden festival to share local, sustainable and earth friendly gardening and creative ways to grow. The day will include educational sessions, how to’s from unders tanding pesticides to how to prepare your soil to learning innovative garden designs and beyond, a garden marketplace featuring plants, garden art, tools, bulbs and all the goods to make your garden grow, and more garden discoveries and learning for all ages. Grab a quick snack at the food truck court and learn more about the restoration of the Japanese Gardens at Point Defiance Park. Free to the public, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

‘THE LIVES OF HAMILTON FISH’ On Sunday, Sept. 20 at 2 p.m., Rachel Mason will present her multimedia piece “The Lives of Hamilton Fish” at the Grand Cinema. Mason is a sculptor, songwriter and performance artist who wrote, directed and stars in this new and innovative experimental rock opera based on the coincidental deaths of two men with the same name – one a murderer and the other a New York politician – who died one day apart in January 1936. It is possibly the first and only film to be entirely written and sung by a female singer-songwriter and will be screened multi-nationally by art-house theaters across the world. It has even has been officially selected for the Raindance Film Festival in London. Both the film and album have already garnering acclaim from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Vice, Art in America, and Interview Magazine. Info/ tickets: www.grandcinema.com.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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DAZZLING VARIETY MARKS THE STATE FAIR’S FINE ART SHOW

CULTURE CORNER

A GUIDE TO THE MUSEUMS OF TACOMA

Museum of the Week: Foss Waterway Seaport

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Info: www.fosswaterwayseaport.org/ Tacoma-This is Your Waterfront!

The Seaport’s Museum is a place where stories are told with artifacts from our permanent collection and on extended loan. This year we welcome new exhibits sharing stories of Puget Sound’s Mosquito Fleet, Maritime Lego Display, Classic Boats, and new train exhibit entitled Rails to Sails.

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This week’s events:

Sept. 19 and 20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

All About Steam Weekend

PHOTO OF ARTWORK BY DAVE R. DAVISON

BLUE RIBBON. Linda Jacobus won first prize in painting for “Pansies Mixed Colors.”

By Dave R. Davison dave@tacomaweekly.com

The Washington State Fair is here again.

The annual extravaganza offers something for everyone, including lovers of art. The fair’s juried Fine Art Show is a must see, featuring drawing, painting, sculpture, watercolor, mixed media and digital art by Washington artists. The show is generous in accepting work from artists working in a wide range of styles and at various levels of competency.

Of 843 works of art submitted, 695 were accepted for showing at the fair.

Best in Show award was won by Larry Parkhurst for his color drawing “Sharp Right,” a rural landscape depicting a bullet-riddled road sign near a clump of whitetrunked trees. Parkhurst manages to create a gauzy effect and is deft at handling complex light and shadow. The title and subject matter make a subtle political statement.

First Place in oil painting category was taken by Linda Jacobus for her “Pansies Mixed Colors,” a still life of three potted pansies that is reminiscent of something by one of the Dutch masters of the 16th and 17th centuries (with maybe a twinge of impressionism.)

In drawing, first prize was taken by Pat Graham’s “Hi, My Name Is Q,” an image of a sleek and curious cat. In the water media category first prize was given to Terry A. Bader’s “Morning Commute.”

The digital art section of the show features everything from anime art to brilliantly colorized photos to psychedelic abstractions.

One of the latter, Trygve Stageberg’s “Indomitable,” took first place in the category. This is a wild and wonderful whirl of fine-spun color printed onto a glossy metal plate.

Judi Hook took the blue ribbon in sculpture for “Glimmer Dragon,” a dragon’s head made of clunky, rusty junk that is welded

into a series of graceful curves. The mixed media winner was Vicki Veldman whose “Koi Pond” is a glass-topped table. The glass is reverse painted with koi fish and water plants and is done in such a way as to create a realistic, three dimensional effect.

Perhaps the most popular (and best selling) part of the annual show is the miniatures.

Janette Stiles won the miniature competition with “Still Life with Milk Pail.” These little paintings sell like so many scones.

This year, the fair’s art department introduced a “Washington State Symbols” category. There were a number of submissions of art featuring symbols of our home state. Shelly Bates submitted a large tableau of Seattle Seahawks football players with symbols of Washington surreptitiously inserted here and there. The category was won, however, by Sue Christensen for “Washington: Dream State.” The painting depicts our state bird, the goldfinch, perched atop a giant onion.

In addition to award winners, there is always much to see at the fair’s fine art show.

There are surprises like James Rice’s low rider motorcycles made entirely of shiny spoons. Visitors are invited to vote for a “People’s Choice” award. A new one is given every day. Art demonstrations are also held each day that the fair is in progress.

It is my own tradition to spend a big chunk of my time at the fair each year just perusing the fine art show. I enjoy the paintings of tigers and elephants and horses and chickens.

I love the impressionistic landscapes and the gritty street scenes. Fantasy art hangs alongside rustic farm scenes. The curators of the show always do an expert job of arranging the artwork by color and subject matter so that all the show flows despite its diversity. The show is located on the second floor of the Pavilion.

The Washington State Fair runs through Sept.

27. For further information visit www.thefair. com.

Throughout the weekend Foss Waterway Seaport will feature the Seaport’s “Mosquito Fleet” exhibit and offer a STEAM event geared to area families and steam enthusiasts. The museum welcomes back the Northwest Steam Society who will bring a collection of their steamers to moor at the Seaport’s dock. The boat owners plan to share their steamers with Seaport guests, demo and explain how they work, plus answer all “steam” questions. They will provide plenty of steam-whistle sounds to support this event. If you have never seen these delightful boats, now is the time to come to the Seaport, they are amazing! Some lucky museum visitors will enjoy a short cruise!

Just think, back in the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s, before refined petroleum, gasoline and diesel engines were common, all you needed was something to burn, some nice fresh water, a boiler to change water into steam, and an engine to create the power to turn the propeller. Puget Sound had steam boats all over its waters transporting people and goods, and even using them just for fun! The Northwest Steam Society’s steamers are mostly “steam launches, best suited for taking people from the dock to a ship at anchor or simply to have a leisurely picnic while exploring some back waters. Come and enjoy the sights and sounds of a long lost era of great importance to the development of our region and country!

At the time our building was constructed (1900), steam was not confined to the water. Steam engines brought trains to the Seaport building full of wheat. Come see our train exhibit which features a model railroad of a “stylized” Half Moon Yard matching the one found near our building, an interactive display which challenges visitors with a variety of switching assignments, a “What’s That Sound” board full of railroad sounds, and a 7-1/2” scale switch that will enable visitors to see how tail cars move from one track to another. Enjoy talking with the railroad docents, who are experts on all things related to “trains.”

Additionally, the Seaport will offer many steam activities for kids of all ages throughout each day!

Activities include: Part of a Boat (board our kid’s boat moored securely on land), What is Displacement?, The Power of Pressure - the Great Balloon Race, Smash Can Experiment, Blow that Steam Whistle hourly, and bring that cell phone and take your picture with Hyak crew and passengers, a Mosquito Fleet steamer from the past. The Seaport will have model steamboats for kids to race in the wading pond.

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questions to me, then we collect those questions on an iPad. â&#x20AC;Ś I literally go in while my opening act is onstage, and I pick the questions Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna answer, and I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really have much time. Then I just pop the thing open and start.

Hopefully, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s working. I really canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell, but until somebody tells me to stop, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll just keep doing it. (He laughs.)

TW: Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gotta be some real left-field stuff.

BLACK: Basically, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always, â&#x20AC;&#x153;How come youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re coming out late?â&#x20AC;? And you go, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Really? This is tough for you, like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m a prima donna?â&#x20AC;?

Then every so often you get something about a town or a person in the town or some governing official that has done something, or a fight they are having that is beyond belief. Or someone knew a person â&#x20AC;Ś and their service animal was a hedgehog.

TW: Whaaat?

BLACK: When you get stuff like that, even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not true itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s great. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had unbelievably well-written rants by people - just folks.

TW: In one of those clips you said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m doing this because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a show.â&#x20AC;?

Can you elaborate?

BLACK: Yeah, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a TV show. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m tired of trying to buck (the system.)

For years, there were at least two submissions a year. Or sometimes theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d come to me and say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whaddaya wanna do?â&#x20AC;?

Then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d tell â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No.â&#x20AC;? Or weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d actually work on it, then theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d go, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No.â&#x20AC;? I just got tired of it. Hopefully, this turns into a show.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m basically gonna see where it leads. If nothing else, it gives me little things to post, and it allows me to talk about things I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally talk about. I mean, they asked me one night about Robin Williams when I was in San Francisco, and I got to talk about Robin in a serious way and didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to a â&#x20AC;&#x153;honk honk, quack quack.â&#x20AC;?

(He chuckles.)

Instead of doing a Q & A, Tommy Smothers is coming tomorrow (Sept. 11). So Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna hopefully interview him.

TW: Howâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d that come about?

BLACK: Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a friend.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LIVE NATION We did two shows for these

Bill of Rights monuments weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re trying to get built (commemorated in the TV special â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lewis Black & Friends: Let Freedom Laughâ&#x20AC;? in April). We worked together there and talked. I said Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m gonna have you come onstage with me, if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mind. Then we worked it out.

TW: You mentioned the Bill of Rights monument. Tell me a bit about that project.

BLACK: Well, my friend Chris Bliss is a comic who lives in Arizona. He came up with the idea because Arizonans were being a little bit wacky about ... what constitutes the Bill of Rights. He thought it would be really good if, in front of the Statehouse, there was a monument - like a sculpture.

TW: So where does that stand now?

BLACK: There is one now in front of the statehouse in Arizona. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Bliss) trying to do it front of every one of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;em. So we did a fundraiser in Washington to try to kick it off around the country, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll take time.

TW: Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next for you? Are you filming this tour for a special or anything?

BLACK: Because of a whole bunch of miscues, we should have gotten a special out, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m kind of finishing up. A CD is gonna come out. The thing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m shooting for is, hopefully, a special on Broadway in the fall of 2016 right before the election.

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in a new made for TV movie from ABC called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Madoff,â&#x20AC;? about Bernie Madoff. I have a small role in that.

TW: Who do you play?

BLACK: I play this guy Ezra Merkin (a close business associate of Madoffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s). Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real turd. Basically, he delivered Elie Weisel (the Nobel Prize-winning author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nightâ&#x20AC;? and other works) to Bernie. (He) had a big foundation, and Bernie pissed away his money. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Richard Drefyfuss as Madoff. I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be good, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m never right.

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Rival Sons have been tapped to open with a 7:30 p.m. start. Tickets are on sale now with prices ranging from $49.50 to $150. Visit www.ticketmaster.com to learn more about these other upcoming shows except where otherwise indicated.

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TW PICK OF THE WEEK:

CANADIAN STANDUP COMEDIAN CAROLINE RHEA IS BACK IN TACOMA, WITH FOUR SHOWS SCHEDULED FOR TACOMA COMEDY CLUB, AT 7:30 AND 10:30 P.M. ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, SEPT. 18 AND 19. TICKETS ARE $23 TO $27, AND THE EARLY SHOWS ARE OPEN TO AGES 18 AND OLDER; WWW. TACOMACOMEDYCLUB.COM.

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WASHINGTON STATE FAIR: Terry Fator (comedy) 7:30 p.m., $30-$60, AA

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DEFINITELY WEIRD. Yankovic wowed fans on Sept. 14 in Puyallup.

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the mid-set medley alone, starting with the Men in Black look of he sported for Miley Cyrus spoof, “Party in the CIA.” Yankovic switched his set up pretty substantially from his last local appearance, at the Pantages Theater in 2013, though some of the gags were pretty familiar. “Foil” - sung to the tune of “Royals” - was a standout with its hilariously jarring switch from the wrap’s fungal-fighting powers to black helicopter conspiracies. “Word Crimes” - sung to Robin Thicke’s hit, “Blurred Lines” - took aim at 90 percent of Facebook users. And the acoustic set breathed new life in into old spoofs, with “Eat It” delivered with deadpan earnestness to a melody that sounded a like Clapton’s “Layla.”

But like last time, the encore was all about the “Star Wars” spoofs.

Darth Vader, a gaggle of storm troopers and even a sand-person backing Yankovic up during the Force-themed “The Saga Begins” and “Yoda,” spoofs of Don McClean’s “American Pie” and the Kinks’ “Lola,” respectively.

A hodgepodge of goofy video clips provided buffers between songs, some familiar from the last tour.

In the funniest, Yankovic faced the menacing J.K. Simmons in “Whiplash,” he played Sir Isaac Newton turned battle rhymer in “Epic Rap Battles of History,” and Aaron Paul depicted Al in the trailer for fictional biopic, “Weird.” Look that last one up on YouTube and

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Admit it, cool people.

You secretly love Weird Al Yankovic. You once filed the nerdy King of Pop Parody under “guilty pleasure,” or maybe you pigeonholed him as “that guy who’s cashed in on food puns since the Reagan Era.” But it’s about time you openly embraced his brilliant brand of weirdness.

Like many a geeky pastime – superheroes, zombies, cosplay – Weird Al is more mainstream than ever. Last year’s “Mandatory Fun” album became his first No. 1 debut, later earning him the Grammy for Best Comedy Album with its clever spoofs of Lorde, Imagine Dragons and Robin Thicke, among others. And on Monday, Sept. 14, Yankovic provided more insight into his tremendous staying power as he headlined the Washington State Fair grandstand.

For starters, he may be one of the hardest working performers in pop. Seriously, it takes a lot of energy for a 55-year-old to dance like a living windsock man on acid, and the sheer volume of costume changes puts every pop diva this side of Lady Gaga to shame. Speaking of whom, he rocked a plushy squid with ice cream head ensemble during “Perform This Way.” He brought the doo-rag/Segway, Amish rapper and MichaelJackson-turned-Klump looks back for “White & Nerdy,” “Amish Paradise” and “Fat.” He blew through several changes in

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Set list: Tacky; Lame Claim to Fame; Polka medley; Perform This Way; Dare to Be Stupid; Fat; First World Problems; Foil; Smells Like Nirvana Epic medley: Party in the CIA; Handy; Bedrock Anthem; Another One Rides the Bus, Ode to a Superhero; Gump; Inactive; eBay; Canadian Idiot; Wanna Be Ur Lovr Acoustic set: Eat It (Layla); I Lost on Jeopardy; I Love Rocky Road; Like a Surgeon; White & Nerdy; Word Crimes; Amish Paradise Encore: We All Have Cell Phones/The Saga Begins; Yoda.

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B SHARP COFFEE: The T-town Blues Revue with Jim King (blues) 8 p.m., $7 DAWSON’S: Heather Jones & The Groove Masters (R&B, soul) 9 p.m., NC G. DONNALSON’S: Kareem Kandi Band (jazz) 8 p.m., NC JAZZBONES: Randy Hansen (Jimi Hendrix tribute) 8 p.m., $10-$15 KEYS ON MAIN: Dueling pianos, 9 p.m., NC LOUIE G’S: The Groove Colony (rock, jazz, Latin) 8 p.m., $5, AA THE SWISS: Cannon & The Lion of Judah, Mista Chatman, The Lights (reggae) 8:30 p.m., $7 TACOMA COMEDY: Caroline Rhea (comedy) 7:30, 10:30 p.m., $23-$27, 18+ early show UNCLE SAM’S: Maxx Wattz (hard rock, classic rock) 8 p.m.

SATURDAY, SEPT.19 THE VALLEY: Greenriver Thrillers, Infinite Flux, Skies Below, Granite Waves (hard rock) 8:30 p.m., NC DAWSON’S: The Tonze (jazz, funk) 9 p.m., NC G. DONNALSON’S: Kareem Kandi Band (jazz) 8 p.m., NC HALF PINT: Rock & A Funky Roll, Chrysallis Effect (rock) 9 p.m., NC JOHNNY’S DOCK: At Five (R&B, funk, jazz) 5 p.m., NC KEYS ON MAIN: Dueling pianos, 9 p.m., NC LOUIE G’S: Bleed the Stone, Element A440, Mom’s Rocket (rock) 7 p.m., $15, AA THE SPAR: Strange Pleasure (rock) 8 p.m., NC THE SWISS: Kry (rock covers) 9 p.m., $5-$10 TACOMA COMEDY: Caroline Rhea (comedy) 7:30, 10:30 p.m., $23-$27, 18+ early show WASHINGTON STATE FAIR: Keith Urban (country) 7:30 p.m., $40-$100, AA

SUNDAY, SEPT. 20

WASHINGTON STATE FAIR: Patti LaBelle with Tacoma Symphony (soul, R&B) 7:30 p.m., $28-$75 B SHARP COFFEE: Creative Colloquy (spoken word) 7 p.m., NC, AA DAWSON’S: Heather Jones and the Groove Masters (R&B, soul) 8 p.m., NC JAZZBONES: Rockaroke (live band karaoke) 9 p.m., NC

TUESDAY, SEPT. 22 WASHINGTON STATE FAIR: Iggy Azalea (hip-hop) 7:30 p.m., $55$85, AA ANTIQUE SANDWICH CO.: Open mic, 6:30 p.m., $3, AA B SHARP COFFEE: Peeled Bananas (comedy open mic) 7:30 p.m., NC, AA DAVE’S OF MILTON: Jerry Miller (blues, rock) 7 p.m., NC DAWSON’S: Brian Feist and Doug Skoog (blues) 8 p.m., NC JAZZBONES: Ha Ha Tuesday with Brett Jennings (comedy) 8:30 p.m., $5 NORTHERN PACIFIC: Stingy Brim Slim (blues) 7 p.m., NC, AA

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 23 WASHINGTON STATE FAIR: Duran Duran, Chic (rock, pop, dance) 7:30 p.m., $60-$100, AA B SHARP COFFEE: Dan Joyner Trio (jazz) 6 p.m., $5-$10, AA DAWSON’S: Linda Myers Band (R&B, blues, jazz) 8 p.m., NC HARMON TAPROOM: Open mic with Steve Stefanowicz, 7 p.m., NC NORTHERN PACIFIC: Open mic, 7:30 p.m., NC, AA STONEGATE: Dave Nichols’ Hump Day Jam, 8:30 p.m., NC TACOMA COMEDY: Comedy open mic, 8 p.m., NC, 18+ TOWER BAR & GRILL: Michelle Beaudry (jazz guitar) 4:30 p.m.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 24 WASHINGTON STATE FAIR: Jake Owen, A Thousand Horses (country) 7:30 p.m., $45-$70, AA

WASHINGTON STATE FAIR: Chris Tomlin, Toby Mac (Christian pop) 7:30 p.m., $38-$63

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NEW FRONTIER: Bluegrass Sunday, 3 p.m., NC NORTHERN PACIFIC: Geriatric Jazz (jazz) 11 a.m., NC, AA O’MALLEY’S: Comedy open mic, 8:30 p.m., NC THE SPAR: Chris Stevens and the Surf Monkeys (blues) 7 p.m., NC TACOMA COMEDY: Battle of the Sexes (comedy) 8 p.m., $10$14, 18+

ANTHEM COFFEE: Live Roots, 5 p.m., NC, AA B SHARP COFFEE: Keith Henson Octet (jazz, bop) 8 p.m., NC, AA CHARLEY’S: Blues jam with Richard Molina, 8 p.m., NC DAVE’S OF MILTON: Open jam, 8 p.m., NC DAWSON’S: Billy Shew Band (open jam) 8 p.m., NC G. DONNALSON’S: Al Gord (jazz) 8:30 p.m., NC KEYS ON MAIN: Dueling pianos, 9 p.m., NC THE SWISS: Barleywine Revue (bluegrass) 8:30 p.m., NC TACOMA COMEDY: Jessica Kirson (comedy) 8 p.m., $10-$14, 18+

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COMING EVENTS

TW PICK: MARÍA VOLONTÉ AND BLUE TANGO PROJECT Fri., Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m.

Madera Furniture Company, 2210 Court A

Back for their third performance, Madera Furniture Company is pleased to welcome María Volonté and Blue Tango Project for an intimate evening of Blues infused Tango music. Direct from Buenos Aires, Volonté is on guitar and vocals and Kevin Carrel Footer is on harmonica and vocals are known for the blending of classic tango with echoes of late-night jazz and Latin-blues fusion.

Hailing from the colorful and gritty La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Blue Tango Project is a ground-breaking exploration of the emotional and musical crossroads where tango and the blues embrace.

This globe-trotting duo celebrates the deep spiritual bond that joins tango and the blues, as two musical genres born in desire and marginality, many times censored yet always resurgent and speaking directly to our hungry souls. When they play together, Maria’s voice and guitar fill the stage with echoes of tango’s forbidden pleasures while Kevin’s harmonica whines with the lament of the solitary blues soul. Tickets at the door the night of the show for $15 or for $12.50 plus service fees you can reserve them online at BrownPaperTickets.com. Info: (253) 572-1218 or info@maderawoodworking.com.

BOEING BOEING Fri., Sept. 18, 7:30 p.m.

Tacoma Little Theatre, 210 N. I St. It’s the 1960s and swinging bachelor Bernard couldn’t be happier: A flat in Paris and three gorgeous stewardesses all engaged to him without knowing about each other. But Bernard’s perfect life gets bumpy when his friend Robert comes to stay and a new and speedier Boeing jet throws off all of his careful planning. Price: $24; $22 students, seniors & military; $20 children under 12. Info: (253) 272-2281 KAREEM KANDI BAND Fri., Sept. 18, 8 p.m.

G. Donnalson’s, 3814 N. 26th St. As a saxophonist, arranger,

composer and instructor, Kareem Kandi performs and teaches throughout the northwest as well as around the country. Price: Free. Info: (253) 761-8015 KOREAN AMERICAN ARTISTS OF WASHINGTON STATE Fri., Sept. 18, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Tacoma Public Library, 1102 Tacoma Ave. S. The Korean-American Artists Association of Washington State is a non-profit organization founded in 1989 by local Korean immigrants.

The mission of KAAW is to encourage and support Korean-American Artists in the region in the pursuit of artistic endeavor in order

to enrich both personal and community life. Price: Free.

Info: (253) 292-2001

PEOPLE OF THE ADZE: SHOALWATER BAY TRIBE Sat., Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave. The highly decorative, yet utilitarian, carvings created by the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe and members of its Carving Apprenticeship Program are on display at the Washington State History Museum. Price: $11 for adults, $8 for seniors, students, and military, children 5 and under free. Info: (253) 272-9747 CAKE DECORATING WITH MEREDITH HALE Sat., Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Summit Library, 5107 112th St. E. Join us for a fun, handson cake decorating program.

Meredith Hale will show how to use fondant and to transfer images on to cake. Price: Free. Info: (253) 548-3321 CRUIZIN’ TRAVEL: VINTAGE VEHICLES & ROAD TRIPS Sat., Sept. 19, 10 a.m.

AAA Tacoma, 1801 S. Union Ave. America’s Car Museum and AAA Washington invite you, rain or shine, to a celebration of cool cars and great drive destinations.

See cars on display, bring in your own prized ride (all vintage vehicles are welcome). Price: Free.

Info: (253) 756-3050 MARINE DEBRIS SCULPTURE Sun., Sept. 20, 12-4 p.m.

Foss Waterway Seaport, 705 Dock St. An Ocean Transformed – art with a message, is a new education exhibit at the Seaport. The exhibit

Promote your community event, class, meeting, concert, art exhibit or theater production by e-mailing calendar@tacomaweekly.com or calling (253) 922-5317.

BUFFALO SOLDIERS MUSEUM Wed., Sept. 23, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Buffalo Soldiers Museum, 1940 S. Wilkeson St. Learn about American History 1866-1944 and the Buffalo Soldiers. The name given to these men because of their service, honor and devotion to the United States. Price: Donations accepted. Info: (253) 272-4257

features marine debris sculptures designed and built by students from Sherman Elementary School, (Tacoma Public Schools,) as part of a marine debris sculpture pilot program started in 2015. Price: Included in admission. Info: (253) 272-2750 JAZZ MASTER CLASS WITH ANTONIO SANCHEZ, PERCUSSIONIST Mon., Sept. 21, 6 p.m.

Ted Brown Music, 6228 Tacoma Mall Blvd.

At the Blue Note Master Class, today’s most seminal jazz artists share their knowledge and expertise in a casual and intimate setting of a jazz club. A class consists of a lecture and demonstrations followed by a question and answer session. Price: $5. Info: (253) 272-3211

CLAW OPEN SWIM Wed., Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m.

King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Ave. Join the Cartoonist’s League of Absurd Washingtonians for their monthly Open Swim.

Participants will draw a word from the fez and incorporate that into their drawing. CLAW meets the fourth Wednesday of every month at King’s Books. Price: Free.

Info: (253) 272-8801

WORKSOURCE WORKSHOPS: JOB LAB Mon., Sept. 21, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., 2-4 p.m.

Parkland/Spanaway Library, 13718 Pacific Ave. S. Need help with a job-finding question or issue? Find one-on-one help for your job search from WorkSource employment professionals.

Get advice on topics such as how to develop and launch an effective job search strategy, resume, cover letter and application assistance, interviewing tips and more. Price: Free. Info: (253) 548-3304

MARSHALL JOHNSON “PAST & PRESENT” Thurs., Sept. 24, 10 a.m.

American Art Company, 1126 Broadway Marshall Johnson has a body of work that spans a lifetime of observing the Great Northwest. He truly exhibits the top artistic talent in the Northwest. Price: Free. Info: (253) 272-4327 SPANNING TACOMA Thurs., Sept. 24, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Tacoma Historical Society Museum, 919 Pacific Ave. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Tacoma’s waterways and deep gulches presented challenges to an expanding city. Tacoma’s bridges designed for trains, trolleys, pedestrians, autos and bicycles linked industry to city and neighborhood to neighborhood. Price: Free.

Info: (253) 472-3738

LINE DANCING FOR BEGINNERS Tues., Sept. 22, 6 p.m.

Asia Pacific Cultural Center, 4851 South Tacoma Way Come and learn what line dancing is all about. Dance to all styles of music while getting a great workout. Price: $45 for 7 weeks. Info: (253) 383-3900

For more details on these events and many more, visit www.TacomaWeekly.com and click on the “Calendar” link.

WITCHY WOMAN HOROSCOPES Christina Wheeler has been studying astrology for the past 22 years. She writes, creates, laughs too loud, and owns a store called The Nearsighted Narwhal in Tacoma, WA. If you ever want to chew the fat about astrology, contact her at tinathehyena@gmail.com.

ARIES (Mar. 21 – Apr. 19) Your moods take a turn toward the optimistic. Your need to roam is reignited within you once again. Passions stir up when long-forgotten emotions resurface and make you remember why you loved someone or something so much in the first place. It’s an exciting time for you, especially if your life has fallen into the banality of routine. Start your wild adventure.

LIBRA (Sep. 23 – Oct. 22) Routine is making you feel restless. You feel called to travel, as there is a major lesson that will shine a light on you through your journey. Apart from that, you have to stay the urge to just get up and leave abruptly from your life. A short trip will ease your tensions and lack of day-to-day variety and will renew your spirit. Deep conversations with knowing people help tremendously.

TAURUS (Apr. 20 - May 20) You may be experiencing a restless need to roam. Transformation and evolution hinge on your ability to get out of your comfort zone and set out on a solo adventure. Your lust for life wells up and it becomes immediately obvious that healing and rebirth are on your list of to-do’s. Take it all in stride and do it with a sense of determination and passion. Life is ever-changing again.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 – Nov. 21) Your intensities turn wholeheartedly toward making money this week. As fast and as much as you can. Your restlessness is second to none, as all you want to do right now is just get out of Dodge. Make sure that while you’re running to whatever destination is calling to you that you stop running once you get there. Money is good, but so is your sanity. Please remember that.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun. 20) Your ardor and intensity are focused solely on relationships this week. Traveling to see an eternal flame is entirely possible, as not just the meeting is important, but also what you will learn about yourself through the journey. Note how you metamorphose through each new relationship and appreciate with vigor your past lovers’ hand in changing the color of your wings.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 – Dec. 21) The pursuit of truth will have you fired up this week. Seeking out what is true and right in your life and rewarding it with your full attention will bring you great satisfaction. Restlessness is par for the course and part of your nature so call on your old coping mechanisms to properly get through the day.

There is much to learn at this time. Keep your mind open and eyes peeled.

CANCER (Jun. 21 – Jul. 22) Taking care of business may involve you traveling away from the comfort of your sanctuary. Your fervor for your work may rekindle through learning something new. Serving others brings you an emotional peace that cannot be bought.

Teaching or being taught is highly likely right now so prepare to instruct, but to also learn through that process and vice versa.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 – Jan. 19) Digging deeply for your hidden truths is something required of you at this time. The things that remain long buried and forgotten can sometimes be the very keys that unlock the doors you’re standing in front of right now. Subconscious desires weave through your waking life and it takes a little effort to realize why you want the things that you do with such passion. Grab your shovel.

LEO (Jul. 23 – Aug. 22) A great sweeping feeling of emotional fulfillment will run through your heart at the thought of a love. There is something intrinsically right about what is happening in your life right now. Fate stays its course and you feel like you’re at a point where you can relax into life, not make any big decisions, and let the good times run their course without overthinking.

And you’re right.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 – Feb. 18) You may be working on a group project or traveling with a pack this week. Your lust for life and fury for striking your own path will emerge and as you find your place within your group you will learn more about yourself than you ever could on your own. Put all that restless energy to use and hone in on the things that are worth learning, leaving things best forgotten behind you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 – Sep. 22) Look to your mother/mother figure and childhood home to learn more about yourself than you could on your own. There are hidden depths of information lying in the study of these areas and if you pay careful attention, you will realize that as apart as you’ve always thought you were from these things, you are truly one in the same. Find common ground this week.

PISCES (Feb. 19 – Mar. 20) Your professional career focus may be changing right now. You are feeling quite fidgety with what you want to do with your life right now. There’s a palpable need for what is true and right in a situation.

Preaching to others about your truth might make more dissenters than believers. Take care to deliver an objective point of view from your soapbox and don’t trip stepping off of it.

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PETS Tiny Bird Rescue Sandy 253-770-8552

Need safe farms or barns for indoor/outdoor semi-feral cats.

They are fixed, vaccinated and de-wormed. Ages 9 mo. & up. Leave message at (253) 203-4608

NOTICES In the Welfare of: S, N. DOB: 03/01/2013 Case Number: PUY-CW-CW-2014-0052

Meet Snow When people think of the Humane Society, they tend to picture dogs or cats. Many are surprised that a wide variety of rabbits are also available, all of which make excellent house pets. Bunnies, like people, tend to be packed full of personality, ranging from mellow and happy-go-lucky to giving the Energizer Bunny a run for his money. Featured Pet Snow is of the first category, friendly and as easy going as they come. As her name suggests, her coat mimics crystalline water ice, dark gray almost charcoal in some places and white streaked in others. Also like snow, the shorthaired rabbit likes to hop to and fro, almost dancer-like in her lightness of feet. Meet Snow and our other cast of characters today! All buns are $15 during the month of September. #A499855

Visit us at 2608 Center Street in Tacoma www.thehumanesociety.org

NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF PIERCE NO: 15 3 01763 1 In re the Marriage of: David C. Wood Petitioner, And Catherine J Wood Respondent.

To the Respondent: The petitioner has started an action in the above court requesting: That your marriage be dissolved You must respond to this summons and petition by serving a copy of your written response on the person signing this summons and by filing the original with the clerk of the court. If you do not serve your written response within 20 days (or 60 days if you are served outside of the state of Washington) after the date this summons was served on you, exclusive of the day of service, the court may enter an order of default against you, and the court may, without further notice to you, enter a decree and approve or provide for the relief requested in the petition. In the cast of a dissolution of marriage or domestic partnership, the court will not enter the final decree until at least 90 days after filling and service. If you serve a notice of appearance on the undersigned person, you are entitled to notice before an order of default or a decree may be entered.

Your written response to the summons and petition must be on form: WPF DR 01.0300, Response to Petition (Marriage) This form may be obtained by contacting the clerk of the court at the address below, by contacting the Administrative Office of the Courts at (360) 7055328, or from the Internet at the Washington State Courts homepage: http://www.courts.wa.gov/forms If this action has not been filed with the court, you may demand that the petitioner file this action with the court. If you do so, the demand must be in writing and must be served upon the person signing this summons. Within 14 days ager you serve the demand, the petitioner must file this action with the court, or the service on you of this summons and petition will be void.

If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time.

One method of serving a copy of your response on the petitioner is to send it by certified mail with return receipt requested.

This summons is sued pursuant to RCW 4.28.100 and Superior Court Rule 4.1 of the sate of Washington.

Dated 05-07-2015 Kevin Stock-Pierce County Clerk930 Tacoma Avenue South #110 Tacoma WA 98402

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YOU are hereby summoned to appear for an 4TH Review Hearing in the Children’s Court of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians on the Puyallup Indian Reservation, which is located at 1638 East 29th Street Tacoma, Washington 98404.

You are summoned to appear for a 4TH Review Hearing on the 28th day of January, 2016 at 9:30 AM.

NOTICE, PURSUANT TO TRIBAL CODE SECTION 7.04.750, THE COURT MAY FIND THE PARENT, GUARDIAN OR CUSTODIAN IN DEFAULT FOR FAILURE TO RESPOND OR APPEAR AT A COURT HEARING. THIS MAY RESULT IN YOUR CHILD(REN) BEING PLACED IN ANOTHER HOME AND THE PARENT ORDERED TO CORRECT CERTAIN PROBLEMS. Notice, pursuant to §7.04.740, If the parent(s), guardian or custodian fails to respond or appear for the formal adjudicatory hearing, the Court may find the parent(s), guardian or custodian in default, and enter a default order of child/family protection and order necessary intervention and appropriate steps the parent(s), guardian or custodian must follow to correct the underlying problem(s).

Notice, pursuant to § 4.08.250, when a party against whom a judgment is sought fails to appear, plead, or otherwise defend within the time allowed, and that is shown to the Court by a motion and affidavit or testimony, the Court may enter an order of default and, without further notice to the party in default, enter a judgment granting the relief sought in the complaint.

TO: NICHOLAS L. MILLER In the Welfare of: M. Jr., N. DOB: 11/27/2005 Case Number: PUY-G-JV-2015-0024 YOU are hereby summoned to appear for an Initial Hearing in the Children’s Court of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians on the Puyallup Indian Reservation, which is located at 1638 East 29th Street Tacoma, Washington 98404.

You are summoned to appear for an Initial Hearing on the 19th day of October, 2015 at 2:30 PM. If you have any questions, please contact the court clerks at (253) 680-5585.

NOTICE, PURSUANT TO TRIBAL CODE SECTION 7.04.750, THE COURT MAY FIND THE PARENT, GUARDIAN OR CUSTODIAN IN DEFAULT FOR FAILURE TO RESPOND OR APPEAR AT A COURT HEARING. THIS MAY RESULT IN YOUR CHILD(REN) BEING PLACED IN ANOTHER HOME AND THE PARENT ORDERED TO CORRECT CERTAIN PROBLEMS. Notice, pursuant to §7.04.740, If the parent(s), guardian or custodian fails to respond or appear for the formal adjudicatory hearing, the Court may find the parent(s), guardian or custodian in default, and enter a default order of child/family protection and order necessary intervention and appropriate steps the parent(s), guardian or custodian must follow to correct the underlying problem(s).

Notice, pursuant to § 4.08.250, when a party against whom a judgment is sought fails to appear, plead, or otherwise defend within the time allowed, and that is shown to the Court by a motion and affidavit or testimony, the Court may enter an order of default and, without further notice to the party in default, enter a judgment granting the relief sought in the complaint.

TO: TASHENA CREE & LEO CHARLES In the Welfare of: C-C, M. DOB: 07/29/2014 Case Number: PUY-W-CW-2015-0054 YOU are hereby summoned to appear for a 2nd Review Hearing in the Children’s Court of the Puyallup Tribe of Indians on the Puyallup Indian Reservation, which is located at 1638 East 29th Street Tacoma, Washington 98404.

You are summoned to appear for a 2nd Review Hearing on the 14TH day of January, 2016 at 9:30 AM. If you have any questions, please contact the court clerks at (253) 680-5585.

NOTICE, PURSUANT TO TRIBAL CODE SECTION 7.04.750, THE COURT MAY FIND THE PARENT, GUARDIAN OR CUSTODIAN IN DEFAULT FOR FAILURE TO RESPOND OR APPEAR AT A COURT HEARING. THIS MAY RESULT IN YOUR CHILD(REN) BEING PLACED IN ANOTHER HOME AND THE PARENT ORDERED TO CORRECT CERTAIN PROBLEMS. Notice, pursuant to §7.04.740, If the parent(s), guardian or custodian fails to respond or appear for the formal adjudicatory hearing, the Court may find the parent(s), guardian or custodian in default, and enter a default order of child/family protection and order necessary intervention and appropriate steps the parent(s), guardian or custodian must follow to correct the underlying problem(s).

Notice, pursuant to § 4.08.250, when a party against whom a judgment is sought fails to appear, plead, or otherwise defend within the time allowed, and that is shown to the Court by a motion and affidavit or testimony, the Court may enter an order of default and, without further notice to the party in default, enter a judgment granting the relief sought in the complaint.

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If you have any questions, please contact the court clerks at (253) 680-5585.

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VOLUNTEERS Help a Child Improve Reading One-on-one support makes a huge difference in an elementary student’s ability to overcome reading challenges. As a Read2Me Tutor, you can be that person who makes a difference. The Tacoma School District and the Tacoma Community House are partners in this endeavor, and we are on the lookout for committed tutors for grades 1-3. Orientations will be held the week of Sep 21st. Call Karen Thomas at (253) 383-3951 for more information.

Great Volunteer Opportunity Make friends, have fun and help seniors with simple tasks. You’ll make a big difference by helping people maintain their independence. This is volunteering, not caregiving. Volunteers must be 55 or older, low income, serve 15 hrs/wk and live in Pierce or Kitsap Counties. Drivers are especially needed. Benefits include hourly tax-free stipend and mileage reimbursement. For information call Julie at Lutheran Community Services, Senior Companion Volunteer Program, (253) 722-5686.

Smile Looking for volunteers who want to share the passion of reading with a struggling reader! All-Star Readers is held Monday and Wednesdays 3:455:00 at Arlington Elementary School now through mid-June. Contact Lori Ann Reeder, Program Manager at lreeder@tacoma.k12.wa.us or 253571-1139 for specifics and to get started.

Build Success Many middle school students need your help with math homework and preparing for tests and quizzes in our after school program on Tuesdays at Baker Middle School. Be a part of their successful transition to high school by helping them with math now. Please contact Jenna Aynes at jaynes@ tacoma.k12.wa.us or 253-571-5053 or Lori Ann Reeder lreeder@tacoma. k12.wa.us or 253-5711139 for specifics.

Math or Reading Help Wanted!

Communities In Schools is looking for dedicated volunteers with an interest in tutoring 2nd grade readers at Sherman Elementary School on Wednesdays from 3:45-4:45 PM. Tutors are also needed at Mt. Tahoma High School with Algebra in the Math Boot Camp on Monday or Thursdays afterschool.

This program is designed to help students improve

their math skills/grades before the semester ends on 1/23. Please contact Trisha Tracy @ 571-3843 or ttracy@tacoma.k12. wa.us for specific information.

Build a Brighter Future. Help a Student Read Dedication and tireless efforts are making a difference in our community.

Communities In Schools is looking for dedicated volunteers with an interest in tutoring 2nd grade readers or to assist in the Homework Club at Fern Hill Elementary School on Wednesdays from 4-5 PM. Please contact Judy Merritt @ 571-3873 or jmerrit@tacoma.k12.wa.us for specific information.

Help Students Graduate.

The process of grooming kids for success can act as a powerful deterrent to dropping out of high school.

Communities In Schools is looking for dedicated volunteers with an interest in tutoring 912 grade at Oakland High School. Students need assistance in Algebra, Basic Math and English Monday - Friday. Volunteers must be consistent, reliable and willing to share their knowledge in one of the above areas weekly. Please contact Leigh Butler @ 571-5136 or lbutler@tacoma.k12. wa.us for more information.

A Student Needs You. The process of grooming kids for success can act as a powerful deterrent to dropping out of high school.

Communities In Schools is looking for dedicated volunteers with an interest in tutoring 912 grade at Foss High School. Students need assistance in Algebra, English, Geometry and Trigonometry on Monday and/or Wednesdays. Volunteers must be consistent, reliable and willing to share their knowledge in one of the above areas weekly. Please contact Tiffynee Terry-Thomas @ 571-7380 or xx for details.

Franciscan Hospice and Palliative Care Needs Volunteers Looking to have a positive impact on your community this year? Invest a few hours per week to support our patients and families. Read a book, listen to life stories, give caregivers a few hours to rest and renew. Apply your listening skills and compassion in a meaningful role as a Franciscan Hospice and Palliative Care volunteer. Comprehensive training and on-going support are provided. Join our caring and professional team to change lives-especially your own. Training starts soon.

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We are a local food bank on the east side of Tacoma, WA and are powered strictly by volunteers. We provide much needed food and other basic household items to people in need on a weekly basis. Being a volunteer driven organization we are always looking for good people who are interested in donating a few hours of their lives helping make the lives of someone else a little better. Donate as much or as little of your time you want for a wide variety of tasks, there is always plenty to do. If you are looking for a way to be part of something bigger and give a little much needed help to the local community then contact us and we’ll get you started. Please join us in helping to spread a little holiday cheer. Contact Enzi 253-212-2778.

Hospice Volunteers Needed To Provide a Special Kind of Caring Franciscan Hospice needs volunteers with helping hands and open hearts to support terminally ill patients in homes and nursing homes in our community.

As part of the Franciscan Hospice care team, you will provide companionship and support to patients and their families in a variety of ways. Volunteers receive comprehensive training and support for this lifeaffirming work. There is a volunteer training starting soon. For more information, call us at (253) 5347050.

EDGEWOOD COMMUNITY FISH FOOD BANK Seeking volunteers to staff Thursdays from 3:30pm 6:30pm and/or Saturdays from 11am-2pm . Those interested contact Community Coordinator, Kate Wright at 253-826-4654 Address: 3505 122nd Ave E Edgewood

Donate time and receive free groceries.

Volunteers needed with skills in management, organization, clerical, food handling, warehousing, maintenance etc. and receive free groceries from a Non-Profit Food Distribution Program. Older teens are welcomed to volunteer and gain valuable work experience.

Contact Ms. Lee at (253) 677-7740 for further information.

PAWS NEEDS WILDLIFE VOLUNTEERS PAWS in Lynnwood is looking for volunteers to help care for wildlife this spring. Every year, PAWS cares for more than 3,000 injured, orphaned or abandoned wildlife. Join the team and you can help feed and care for these remarkable animals. It’s a remarkable experience you won’t find anywhere else! For any questions please contact Mark Coleman, Communications Manager, at 425787-2500 x 817.

These are exciting times and you can make a difference!

South Sound Outreach Services invites you to be trained as an In Person Assister Volunteer to help Pierce County residents enroll online for health insurance in the Washington Health Plan Finder. Open Enrollment is October 1 until March 31st. Coverage begins January 1st, 2014 for those enrolled

by December 15th. Interested trainees may call Heather at SSOS 253593-2111. You’ll be glad you did!

Become a Senior Companion today!

Volunteers help frail or disabled seniors stay in their own home and maintain their independence. Activities include running errands, providing transportation or simply being a friend. Hourly stipend and mileage reimbursement provided. Requirements: must be 55+, serve at least 15 hours a week and be low-income. Drivers are especially needed currently. For more info call Julie Kerrigan, Program Director: 1(800) 3358433, ext. 5686

Help furnish hope to those in need!

NW Furniture Bank Volunteers needed.

“NWFB helps restore hope, dignity and stability in our community by recycling donated furniture to people in need.”

Tu e s d a y - S a t u r d a y Truck Volunteers Needed- 9:00 am-2:00 pm.

Truck volunteers ride along in the truck, deliver furniture to clients and make residential and corporate pickups; they are an essential part of the NWFB Team.

To volunteer contact us at volunteer@nwfurniturebank.org or call 253-302-3868.

Portland Ave Community Center Senior Programs We need a volunteer to host programs Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-12, & 1-2:30 pm at Portland Ave Community Center Senior Programs. Volunteer will be calling Bingo and doing some extreme crafting, gardening during spring & summer and into fall. If interested call Bonnie @ 253-2781475 Monday- Friday 8:30-4PM. Ayusa International SeeksTacoma Host Parents for High School Exchange Students Ayusa International, a 30-year-old non-profit that promotes global learning through the hosting of high school foreign exchange students, is seeking parents/families in Tacoma to host for the upcoming 2013-2014 school year. Ayusa students are 15-18 years old and come from more than 60 countries around the world including Brazil, Japan, Germany, Ecuador, France, Peru, Morocco, China and Spain; they are all proficient in English.

For more information, please visit our website: www.ayusa.org

South Sound Outreach is offering free tax preparation for those who make $50,000 or less.

To schedule an appointment call 253.593.2111 or visit our website at www.southsoundoutreach.org.

Project Homeless Connect is an annual event where homeless individuals can receive free services. The next event will be held at Tacoma Dome on Oct 23rd. For more information visit www.pchomelessconnect.com or call 253.593.2111.

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Classifieds Stephanie Lynch

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8808 37th St W, University Place With a huge yard, great floor plan, newer 30 year roof and some gorgeous updating, this 3 bedroom home with family room AND large bonus room is welcoming it’s new owners. Add in coveted U.P. School District, apple and plum trees, gas range, newer carpet, and lovely neighborhood- the only question is what are you waiting for?

MLS# 836017 $309,329

Shannon• Better Properties (253) 691-1800

Cash flow now with this beautiful Victorian triplex with tons of character in good location!

Walk to hospitals, downtown, parks. Main floor has one lg bedroom plus attached small bonus room, dining, lkitchen with nook, new carpet, bay windows. Upstairs has 2 bedrooms, bath, lg living room, kitchen & balcony. Lower level has 2 studio apts & bath, could be turned into a 2 bedroom. Sep. utilities for main and upper units. Great investment with lots of character.

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8416 PHILLIPS RD SW #20

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1 BED 1 BATH 573 SF. 1 BED CONDO HAS NEW HARDWOODS, SS APPLIANCES, PETS WELCOME AND MUCH MORE.

3 BED, 2.5 BATH 1802 SF. STUNNING HOME HAS HUGE MASTERS SUITE, FAMILY ROOM, LARGE KITCHEN, FENCED YARD AND MORE.

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6450 S MASON AVE #8

11414 152ND ST E

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2 BED 1 BATH 800 SF. 2 BED APT HAS ALL APPLIANCES, NEW COUNTERS, NEWER WINDOWS AND W/S/G INCLUDED.

2 BED, 1 BATH 925 SF. 2 BED TRIPLEX HAS EAT IN KITCHEN, NEW WINDOWS, FIREPLACE, EXTRA STORAGE & $40 FEE FOR W/S/G.

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8403 LOCUST AVE E

6601 S 8TH ST #B5

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$850 2 BED,1 BATH 800 SF. PERFECT 2 BED HAS ALL APPLIANCES, DECK/PATIO, ASSIGNED PARKING, FIREPLACE AND W/S/G INCLUDED.

1 BED, 1 BATH 950 SF. 1ST FLOOR UNIT INCLUDES $45 FOR W/S/G, ALL APPLIANCES, EXTRA STORAGE AND RESERVED CARPORTS.

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Unimproved land 2.20 acres, 2 parcels each is 1.10 acres, 4053 & 4054, slopping has not been logged and there is a non-exclusive easement for ingress and egress. Property has been incorporated

by Milton all building and land use fall under the Milton Municipal Code.

$219,000 Heather Redal (253) 363-5920 Heatherredal@gmail.com

35412 88th Ave S, Roy, WA 98580 11.15 AC Land $500.000

6711 36th St Ct NW, Gig Harbor

11.3 acres located on SR706 off of 506 high traffic count, across from Strip Mall, and a variety of services and businesses.

Zoned RAC commercial and industrial businesses that provide goods, services, employment, group homes, and senior housing. Corner of SR 702 and 88th Ave.

Sergio Hernandez With an incredible layout & a light, bright, open floor plan this 2 story beauty, located in a quiet neighborhood & backing to a greenbelt, is the home for you. Arched doorways, coved ceilings, & French doors are just some of the charming features- add in a large kitchen w/ great work spaces & walk in pantry, & we see character & efficiency working hand in hand. The awesome family room PLUS a den in addition to 4 bedrooms make this home so easy to live in.

Come view, you won’t want to leave.

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3 bed, 1.75 bath. Super charming Craftsman style home with mature landscaping, French doors, fun detailing, a pretty kitchen with a sweet breakfast nook, lovely hardwoods, newer bathrooms, and a central location for easy commuting make this a wonderful home ... Partially finished basement waiting for new owner(s) to make a media room, rec room, extra bedroom or just have tons of extra storage. MLS# 82403 $171,000

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1116 N. Jackson $130,000

2 parcels: Build your dream home with a gorgeous view of Narrows Bridge and Puget Sound. The property is being sold as one to maximize the building envelope and open space but see what works best for you. Build on one lot, sell the other or build on the whole lot, there is so much opportunity here! (MLS # 612161)

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Cute little home on a HUGE lot. Wood floors, character, an oversized tandem garage, and central location with a super low price tag- why rent when you can have this cutie for your own.

MLS#: 838135 $99,950 Shannon• Better Properties (253) 691-1800

4418 N 19th St, Tacoma

Heather Redal (253) 363-5920 Heatherredal@gmail.com

2501 S Ainsworth, Tacoma

3 Bed, 1 3/4 Bath. 1,356 sq ft. Open floor plan & vaulted ceilings highlight this handsome rambler on a parklike corner lot in Artondale. Kitchen features an island, new smoothtop stove & convection oven, tile countertops & bay windows. Family room with fireplace is perfect for entertaining as is the large deck & fenced backyard. The master suite, one of three newly carpeted bedrooms, has French doors to the deck and a remodeled ¾ bathroom.

30-yr roof installed in 2005. 10 mins to schools, shopping, recreation & SR-16 MLS# 573155 $257,500

10519/10521 Mt. Tacoma DR SW, Lakewood

p 3 Beds, 1¾ Bath, 1855 SqFt. Beautiful turn of the century Dutch Colonial home completely updated with character galore.

Hardwood floors, foyer, banister staircase, large living & dining rooms, high ceilings, large remodeled kitchen, separate utility rm, 3 bedrooms up w/loft for possible 4th bedroom. Updated electrical & plumbing, new windows, tank less water heater, heat pump, insulated floors, oversized bathtub, security system. Fully fenced back yard w/large deck, sprinkler system, 2 car garage w/ upgraded electrical. MLS # 730787 $179,000

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Solid Financial LLC, Industrial (land) 5th Ave Ct NE & 66th Ave, Tacoma WA $475,000

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Gleaming hardwoods, coves, arches, characterall sweetly wrapped in this North End Bungalow with private fenced yard, a large living room, separate dining area and a cute kitchen with space for informal dining... A large mudroom, nice sized bedrooms, updated bath and garden space welcome you. Extra offstreet parking, natural gas heat and fireplace- Welcome to the U.P.S/Proctor district.

MLS#: 838040 $229,900 Shannon• Better Properties (253) 691-1800

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1,648 SF W/ side by side units- 2 bed, 1 bath each, both w/ separate decks, laundry facilities, & individual garages this is the rental for you. HUGE lot- 3.81 acres with a pond, a creek and possible marketable timber-enjoy the private, secluded feel while being super close to civilization. Rent rates are lower than market value, so financial info is low.

Rents could/should be closer to $900, currently rented for $675 per side, seller has lowered the rents as a perk for his tenants staying so long.

MLS# 780554 $234,950

Shannon• Better Properties (253) 691-1800

Incredible opportunity to own a well maintained duplex plus an 1800+ sf shop/office! Just a few blocks from Pierce College and near shopping.

3 bedroom, 2 bath units with over 1200 sf each. Ideal for an owner/user, hobbyist, mechanic or a great place to store your cars, boats, equipment or? in the detached shop. Plenty of room to park your RV also. GSI does not include the full shop potential income, only the office portion. Only a short distance from historical Steilacoom and the waterfront! $439,000 Mark Hulen 253.761.8888 Better Properties North Proctor mark@betterproperties.com

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4008 S. Pine

2700 SQ. FT. Completely remodeled w/over 200k in high end upgrades.

7 offices, private exits, shared executive conference room, kitchen w/dining area, lots of storage, and 15 parking stalls. One office could be used as apartment for out of state clients.

ADA Accessible. Mall & 38th Street Exit.

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12706 Pacific Hwy SW. Lakewood WA 98499 $120,000 This is a commercial raw land the seller will lease or sale the property can be fenced completely for someone to store equipment or ??. 6000 Sq/Ft, .14 Acres commercial property tucked away between commercial vacant land. Abutting the Sound Transit RR. Pacific Hwy has a high traffic count. Close to all services and freeway. Seller will look at leasing the land and possibly fencing the perimeter. Owner contract terms available.

Sergio Hernandez (253) 431-2308

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BUSINESSES OPPORTUNITIES

COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS FOR SALE/LEASE NON-FRANCHISE, VERY SUCCESSFUL & VERY PROFITABLE COFFEE SHOP CAFE FOR SALE. $125,000 with $75,000 down, owner’s contract.

OFFICE BUILDING WITH 6 SUITES, Close to Wright’s Park, ideal for Attorneys or Professional use. Asking Price $510,000, Terms. Suites are also available for Lease. price reduction

LONGTIME ESTABLISHED POPULAR RESTR./LOUNGE Business for sale. $149,000 & size, 4,100 sq. ft. Huge reduction PORT ORCHARD, DOWNTOWN Food & Beverage, annual gross sales, approx. $1,300,000, excellent net. Owner selling the business for $250,000. Estate Sale, Price Negotiable. price reduction SAME OWNER: BARTENDING ACADEMY OF TACOMA, Since 1959, Very profitable, Training provided.

VERY PROFITABLE GROCERY STORE/DELI/BAKERY/MEAT MARKET. La Huerta International Market #2 at 5605A Pacific Ave.Business For Sale, $259,950, Annual Gross Sales $1,400,000, Seller Financing. price reduction

RICHARD PICTON or ED PUNCHAK

253-581-6463 253-224-7109

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