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Articles by Mark Klaas
Ashlyn Mathews
Finding her passion: Author makes inroads with her...
By Mark Klaas • January 30, 2013 8:01 pm

To be seen, heard and read is a difficult challenge for fledgling authors in today’s oversaturated, competitive book business.

“Especially with the way publishing is changing right now,” said Ashlyn Mathews, an emerging novelist who grew up in Auburn. “Anyone can self-publish. … In a week there could be thousands of books released … and how do you stand out from all those authors?”

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Victoria Knight
Knight captures Miss Auburn crown
By Mark Klaas • January 27, 2013 3:04 am

Victoria Knight has passed this way before. Five years ago, she was crowned Miss Washington Outstanding Teen on the bright stage of the Auburn Performing Arts Center.

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Nancy Backus
Backus enters Auburn mayoral race
By Mark Klaas • January 24, 2013 5:15 pm

Passionate about the city she grew up in and determined to take on its most difficult challenges, Nancy Backus says she is ready to serve Auburn as its next mayor.

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Driving with attitudes, knowledge, awareness
Driving with attitudes, knowledge, awareness
By Mark Klaas • January 2, 2013 7:07 pm

It is only a snapshot, a gauge of self-reported driving behavior on our roadways. But some things are clear from a recently released Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) survey.

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Going back to school on security | Klaas
Going back to school on security | Klaas
By Mark Klaas • December 26, 2012 5:35 pm

Are schools safe for our children, educators and staff? For the most part, local school district officials say they are. But no matter how safe schools play it, conditions, procedures and policies always could be revisited, possibly enhanced and better enforced.

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A large
High winds cause minor damage, power outages in...
By Mark Klaas • December 17, 2012 3:49 pm

One glance at the fallen Douglas fir in her front yard reminded Carrie Pond just how fortunate she was. She had fallen asleep in her recliner watching television in the front room of her home on Auburn’s West Hill early Monday morning when she was suddenly awakened by a loud noise.

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A Home of Straw: Wendy Ray’s oil painting came away with the People’s Choice Award at the museum-supported exhibit.
Auburn artist brings home People’s Choice Award
By Mark Klaas • December 12, 2012 2:26 pm

As an emerging artist, Wendy Ray welcomes the challenge to bring beauty to life on canvas. When it comes to capturing the color, texture and character of people, animals and other things, she blossoms with a stroke of a rich oil or smooth watercolor brush in her own realistic style.

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What’s that strange object in the sky | Klaas
What’s that strange object in the sky |...
By Mark Klaas • December 5, 2012 6:58 pm

On the same November evening, a couple of hours apart, witnesses on Auburn’s West Hill and in Kent’s downtown claimed they saw the same thing, something awfully peculiar, flashing and darting across the heavens.

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Lions Ambition
GRCC’s Fall Diversity Festival shines | Slideshow
By Mark Klaas • December 5, 2012 5:42 pm

An ethnic blend of talented student and guest singers, musicians, dancers and poets took the stage at the Green River Community College Lindbloom Center for the inaugural Fall Diversity Festival on Nov. 29.

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Anthony Cano
Auburn Boy Scout hopes to bring comfort to...
By Mark Klaas • November 30, 2012 4:14 pm

Anthony Cano hopes to bring comfort to patients at Seattle Children’s Hospital.

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Times for kudos and thanks | Klaas
Times for kudos and thanks | Klaas
By Mark Klaas • November 28, 2012 8:44 pm

Auburn won at the ballot this fall, persuading a “supermajority” of voters to pass Proposition 1, the $110 million Auburn High School Modernization and Reconstruction Bond.

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St. Vincent de Paul serves vital role in Auburn community
St. Vincent de Paul serves vital role in...
By Mark Klaas • November 23, 2012 4:20 pm

The phone never stops ringing, the doors often swing open.

St. Vincent de Paul remains a vital resource, a go-to place for needy individuals and struggling families in the Auburn area.

Perhaps even more so today.

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Auburn’s Scot Pondelick served three tours of duty in Iraq with a U.S. Army bomb squad. Now
Veterans Day weekend 2012: Auburn man helped to...
By Mark Klaas • November 7, 2012 8:32 pm

Defanging bombs in a hostile land is a risky business. A job that calls for quick thinking, cold precision and a steady hand even as bullets kick up dirt and bits of street around you. Military bomb technicians must decide the best way to defuse the devices when one wrong move can kill them.

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U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell vows to continue efforts to put more Washingtonians
Cantwell stops in Auburn, vowing to put more...
By Mark Klaas • October 26, 2012 11:10 pm

U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell’s reelection campaign stopped in Auburn on a soggy Friday morning, joining a spirited rally with union leaders, machinists and aerospace workers huddled at the IAM Local 751 Hall.

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The Rev. Jimmie James
Spreading HOPE for the homeless | Klaas
By Mark Klaas • October 25, 2012 6:26 pm

A woman reaches into her child’s bag for a crayon so she can jot down a number to call for help. On one side of the room, a man plays a ditty on his small guitar, humming the simple lyrics to himself.

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Michael Skupin
‘Survivor’ star spreading the good word
By Mark Klaas • October 17, 2012 8:24 pm

He is the ultimate warrior, the genuine “Survivor,” the guy always up to the challenge. Michael Skupin of reality TV show fame insists he has more mountains to climb, more terrain to tame.

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Students at Holy Family School helped raise money so that others living half a world away could play soccer and gather water.
Holy Family Catholic School students reach out to...
By Mark Klaas • October 10, 2012 9:27 pm

Hope comes in the shape of a soccer ball for one impoverished, small African nation. Recognizing this, a compassionate teacher and her gracious students at Holy Family Catholic School made the long-distance connection.

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Brian Wharton
Auburn Symphony Orchestra’s cellist makes most of the...
By Mark Klaas • October 10, 2012 9:11 pm

Whether he teaches or performs, Auburn’s Brian Wharton delivers something special for all to hear. It comes from the heart, and the strings of a cello.

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Great shot: Auburn’s Katelyn Cooper captured a hummingbird at work.
Auburn’s young, blossoming photographer captures beauty
By Mark Klaas • September 26, 2012 9:22 pm

When Katelyn Cooper was 2 years old old, she was clicking photos from a film-loaded Fisher-Price camera.

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The Pacific City Council and the City police employees union officially gave the mayor a vote of no confidence in April.
It’s time for mayor to resign | Klaas
By Mark Klaas • September 20, 2012 4:30 pm

Pacific’s government is broken. Mayor Cy Sun and a frustrated City Council can no longer coexist.

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