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Vol.119, No. 5, February 3, 2009
The Voice of The Sky Valley Since 1899
Much more inside!
Page 1: Students face new requirements / Pregnant cow swims eight miles / Lake Tye Building goes on auction block
Page 2: Around The Valley / Flashback / News Briefs
Page 3: Sportsmen's show, RV show cancelled at fairgrounds / Two women allege part of hospital employee / EvCC will hold running start information session
Page 4: New Business / Births / Find It Fast Directory / Volunteers needed to assist vulnerable adults
Page 5: Editor's Notebook: "Up To The Challenge" / Letter / Obituaries / Professional Directory / Church Directory / New Business / Local police and runners participate in B.C./ Suzawa wins Park Place Geography Bee
Page 6: The Valley News: Sulta High band teacher Jill Sumpter puts heart and soul into music program / Sultan garbage rates increase Feb. 1 / Classifieds / Legal notices
Page 7: February Health and Beauty
Page 8: MHS and SHS sports photos
Lake Tye building goes on the auction block
When the Lake Tye building was completed in 2006, it seemed symbolic of the new sophistication and hectic, real estate-driven prosperity of Monroe.
The three-story, $7.7 million building with its stylish metal roof and terraced colonnade, with plate glass windows overlooking Lake Tye, was the largest office building in Monroe, and the most modern. A reconveyance business took up much of the second floor, a bank occupied part of the third.
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Learning Curve: students face new
requirement in order to graduate
Most CEOs couldn’t take the pressure facing Courtney Avery, 17, this afternoon.She will give a presentation in a moment that will determine whether she is allowed to graduate from high school. But unlike her classmates, she will give it before about 50 adults, four of whom are evaluating her, the rest of whom are learning how to be evaluators. And as her outward calm is betrayed by one rocking ankle, her teacher urges the large group to be critical. Read story
Pregnant cow falls in river, swims eight miles
The Frohnings might want to reconsider entering Leah the cow in the fair this year. Rather, they should perhaps enter her in the Olympics. As the Tualco Valley dairy family recently discovered, the cow can swim.
In November, Leah, then seven months pregnant, was grazing on the Frohning family’s farm along the banks of the Skykomish River. Nearing her due date, she was taken out of rotation in the dairy barn and was put on a regimen of rest and food.
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