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    Articles by Shawn Skager
    Foreigner lead singer Kelly Hansen in action this past Saturday at the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn. The legendary
    Blast from the past: Foreigner, Kid Rock jolt...
    By Shawn Skager • September 9, 2015 6:24 pm

    Multi-platinum heavyweights Kid Rock and Foreigner descended upon Auburn’s White River Amphitheatre this past Saturday as the last stop on the Cheap Date tour.

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    Pacific Councilperson John Jones is resigning his seat due to health reasons.
    Jones to step down from Pacific City Council...
    By Shawn Skager • August 19, 2015 6:05 pm

    Pacific City Councilman John Jones will resign his Position 2 seat at Monday’s City Council meeting.

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    Lacie Parrino of Bonney Lake checks out Stan and Pam Pauley’s 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air at the Terry Home Show and Shine in Pacific City Park.
    Classic cars sparkle at Terry Home Show and...
    By Shawn Skager • August 19, 2015 6:01 pm

    Sunshine was elusive at the 23rd annual Terry Home Show and Shine benefit car show last Saturday, but plenty of automotive beauty gleamed for spectators.

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    Foreigner
    Foreigner joins Kid Rock at White River Amphitheatre...
    By Shawn Skager • August 19, 2015 5:56 pm

    If you have listened to FM radio at any time during the past 30 years, you know who Foreigner is.

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    Leslie Mawing and Stryker Phd win last year's Longacres Mile.
    Mawing, Stryker Phd set to defend Mile title
    By Shawn Skager • August 12, 2015 6:29 pm

    When Stryker Phd takes to the track on Sunday to defend his Longacres Mile title, he’ll have more than jockey Leslie Mawing on board.

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    Jack 'Fast Jack' Beckman at the starting line at Pacific Raceways during the NHRA Northwest Nationals.
    Records fall, women rule at NHRA Northwest Nationals
    By Shawn Skager • August 12, 2015 6:24 pm

    Although Jack “Fast Jack” Beckman made a splash on Friday by becoming the first Funny Car driver to break the four-second barrier on the 1,000-foot drag strip at Pacific Raceways, it was the ladies of Top Alcohol who made the most noise at last weekend’s NHRA Northwest Nationals.

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    From left
    Local rugby players make noise at national level
    By Shawn Skager • August 12, 2015 6:20 pm

    When people find out what Winter Lily O’Bryan does when she isn’t rousing Trojan spirit as a member of the Auburn High School cheerleading squad, most are surprised.

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    Fit For A KIng will play the Vans Warped Tour at the White River Amphitheatre on Aug. 8
    Fit For A King swing into White River...
    By Shawn Skager • August 5, 2015 8:46 pm

    Setting your band apart from the more than 110 acts at this year’s rendition of the Vans Warped Tour, which wraps up it’s summer run Saturday, Aug. 8 at the White River Amphitheater, can be a challenge.

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    Gary Ermish and his 1968 Chevy Camaro race car.
    Auburn’s Gary Ermish looks to continue dominance at...
    By Shawn Skager • August 5, 2015 8:32 pm

    For more than 30 of his 67 years, Gary Ermish has been laying down serious rubber at Pacific Raceways in Kent.

    But he’s never had a year like this one.

    This season Ermish and his 1968 Chevy Camaro, loaded with a big block 496, have been cruising down the strip in record times, landing the Auburn driver in first place in the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) District 6 National Ope Series Super Street Point Standings.

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    Whiz Khalifa onstage at the White River Amphitheatre.
    Rapper Wiz Khalifa plays White River Amphitheatre |...
    By Shawn Skager • August 5, 2015 7:56 pm

    Rapper Wiz Khalifa and the Sounds of Zummer tour rolled into the White River Amphitheatre in Auburn on Aug. 2

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    Former-Algona Police Lt. Lee Gaskill was charged with first-degree theft and abuse of office on Tuesday
    Former Algona Police officer charged with first-degree theft...
    By Shawn Skager • August 4, 2015 8:22 pm

    King County prosecutors on Tuesday charged a former Algona police officer with first-degree theft and abuse of office for allegedly stealing from a multi-city Police Explorer program for youth.
    According to charging papers issued by the King County Superior Court, former Lt. Lee Gaskill will be arraigned Aug. 17 at the King County Regional Justice Center in Kent.

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    NBC Camp director Roger Smith coaches girls through drills at the camp’s Intensity Night on Tuesday at Auburn Adventist Academy. About 1
    Hoops heaven: NBC Camps continue to build better...
    By Shawn Skager • July 29, 2015 5:49 pm

    They call it Intensity Night. Judging from the players’ faces at the NBC Basketball Camps at Auburn Adventist Academy, they are feeling it.

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    Steve Hamilton takes a break from the sun in the shade of his 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air hard top. Hamilton’s car was one of the classics on display at this past weekend’s Auburn Valley Y Car Show and Touch a Truck event.
    Heat can’t beat Auburn Valley Y’s Touch a...
    By Shawn Skager • July 22, 2015 6:12 pm

    Temperatures creeping into the low 90s didn’t keep away spectators at the Auburn Valley Y’s Touch a Truck and Car Show in Auburn last Saturday.

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    City of Pacific settles for $10,000 in public records lawsuit
    City of Pacific settles for $10,000 in public...
    By Shawn Skager • July 22, 2015 6:01 pm

    The City of Pacific will pay $10,000 to settle a lawsuit brought against the City by the notorious open government activist Arthur West.
    The Pacific City Council discussed and decided to head off potential litigation by settling with West for $10,000, Mayor Leanne Guier said. The decision came in a special meeting executive session following Monday’s workshop.

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    Wicked Fabrications' Craig Wick and his 1928 Ford hot rod.
    Wicked Fabrication hot rods on display at Goodguys...
    By Shawn Skager • July 22, 2015 5:59 pm

    When the 28th annual Wesco Autobody Supply Goodguys Pacific Northwest Nationals roll into the Washington State Fairgrounds in Puyallup this weekend, the city of Auburn will be well represented with more than 20 cars pre-registered for the event.
    A good chunk of these will appear courtesy local hot rod and custom car fabricator Wicked Fabrications, run by Auburn native Craig Wick.

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    Katelyn Cooper in action with the Auburn Mountainview girls water polo team.
    Auburn Mountainview girls help club water polo team...
    By Shawn Skager • July 22, 2015 5:57 pm

    This Wednesday three girls water polo teams from the Puget Sound Aquatics club begin play in the USA Water Polo Junior Olympics at local high schools in Orange County, Calif.

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    Lamb of God
    Lamb of God coming to White River Amphitheatre...
    By Shawn Skager • July 15, 2015 6:50 pm

    Lamb of God is alive and well.
    With a new album, “VII: Sturm und Drang”, set to drop on July 24, and a co-headlining summer tour with metal juggernauts Slipknot coming into Auburn’s White River Amphitheatre on July 23, things have never looked better for the band.

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    The crew at Auburn’s Blackfish Distillery
    Auburn boasts own distillery in Blackfish
    By Shawn Skager • July 15, 2015 5:14 pm

    In 2008, the Washington state Legislature passed a bill allowing small craft distilleries – hard liquor versions of micro-breweries that can produce up to 60,000 gallons of hard alcohol a year – to launch businesses.

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    An Army color guard opens the 2014 Pacific Days Grand Parade.
    Pacific Days returns this weekend
    By Shawn Skager • July 8, 2015 7:17 pm

    Pacific Days celebration returns this weekend, kicking off with a kids’ parade on Friday and ending with the Pooch Pageant on Sunday.
    Festivities at Pacific City Park, 600 Third Ave. SE, get under way at 4 p.m. Friday. A kids’ parade, featuring decorated bicycles, begins at 6:15 p.m. It will wind its way from the Pacific-Algona Senior Center, at 100 Third Ave. SE, to the park.

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    Auburn Riverside sophomore Harrison Maurus practices weightlifting at Alpha Strength and Conditioning.
    Maurus sets new American youth records in weightlifting
    By Shawn Skager • July 8, 2015 7:16 pm

    Harrison Maurus’ classmates at Auburn Riverside High School had nary a clue about the power lurking in the 171-pound sophomore’s average-looking frame.

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    'Diamond' David Lee Roth
    Van Halen rocks White River Amphitheatre | SLIDESHOW
    By Shawn Skager • July 8, 2015 6:54 pm

    The White River Amphitheatre in Auburn played host to the return of the mighty Van Halen, which opened its 2015 North American tour at the outdoor venue this past Sunday.
    One of the biggest bands in the world at one time, Van Halen proved it hasn’t lost a step in it’s first full-fledged show since 2013, running through a two-hour, 25-song set list that inlcuded deep tracks such as “Drop Dead Legs” off the “1984” album and “Dirty Movies” from 1981’s “Fair Warning”.

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    Finding the fountain of youth in music
    Finding the fountain of youth in music
    By Shawn Skager • July 8, 2015 4:52 pm

    Once upon a time a Spanish explorer named Juan Ponce de León spent a great deal of time searching what is now Florida for the fabled Fountain of Youth.

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    Kevin Simons works out on the rings at Alpha Strength and Conditioning.
    Simons prepares for Crossfit world games
    By Shawn Skager • July 1, 2015 7:17 pm

    Now that two of this season’s three major Crossfit competitions are in the bag, all that’s left for Kevin Simons is the big one: the 2015 Crossfit World Championships that start on July 22 in Southern California.

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