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Vol.119, No. 4, January 27, 2009
The Voice of The Sky Valley Since 1899
Much more inside!
Page 1: Puppy mill dogs get new lives / Councilman defends role on both sides of North Kelsey land deal / CYRK closes shop
Page 2: Around The Valley / Flashback / News Briefs
Page 3: Robbie's Law: family seeks better notification when a loved one is injured / MHS department scholars / Donate items for soliders / Two Monroe residents win Patriot Awards
Page 4: Professional Directory / Church Directory / Find It Fast Directory
Page 5: Editor's Notebook: "Bankrupt " / Letters / Births / Police
Page 6: The Valley News: Sultan soccer coach retires/ The Penny Pincher / Classifieds / Legal notices
Page 7: Lady Turks basketball / New Business / People / Watch out for flood-related scams / Hyparbaric treatments now offered in Monroe
Page 8: MHS Basketball / Sno County to host 2009 Girls Fast Pitch Softball World Series
How Monroe’s Cyrk, once a billion dollar business, came to an end
Once nearly 500 people filled these cubicles, sat at these sewing machines and worked on these loading docks, shipping a billion dollars worth of logo merchandise a year to corporate clients. Friday the cubicles and sewing machines, photo studio and loading docks were empty except for groups of people drifting about with clipboards, preparing to buy at auction all that remains. Read story
Tail of Survival:
Puppy mill dogs get new lives
Once the sheriff’s deputies were within 100 feet of the May Creek home near Gold Bar in which they’d been told was a puppy mill, they could smell a strong, pungent odor. Inside, the smell was nearly too much to bear. But that wasn’t the worst of it. Inside, more than 150 dogs were caged in very bad conditions, police and animal control officers said, forced to breed repeatedly for the price the puppies would bring. All were filthy. Some were found with serious birth defects such as missing ear canals, perhaps due to overbreeding. Many had been “de-barked,” their vocal cords clipped to keep them quieter. Other dogs were found in the freezer, where the owners put them to silently kill them.
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Monroe Councilman defends role on both sides of
North Kelsey land deal
Monroe City Councilman and realtor Mitch Ruth last week declared that his role representing the potential buyer of a parcel of land at North Kelsey Village, land currently owned by the city, is scrupulously above board. For about two years, Ruth has been working on a separate land deal for clients interested in building a large bowling alley in Monroe. Read story
