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Page 2: Calendar / Flashback / Pan for gold at the fair / City accepting tourism project applications / Fire district opens new station / Storefront decoration contest winner announced
Page 3: Candidates discuss issues at Monroe luncheon (con't. from page 1)
Page 4: New Business / Roads Update / Church to hold carnival after parade / Find It Fast Directory
Page 5: Editor's Notebook / Letters / Obituaries / Good Deeds / Church and Professional Directory
Page 6: Monroe businesses to get fee breaks for improvements / Classified ads / Legal Notices / Statewide Classified Ads
Page 7: Monroe High School coach takes on Danskin Triathlon / Ballot box begins to fill at Monroe Library / Foreclosures double in Sky Valley, still below national trend / CT offers "How To Ride" CD
Page 8: First Response: how to help at a highway collision / North Kelsey developer optimistic about market / Explosion makes two-year arena deal / Speedway results / Birders will hold Swift Night Out
Page 9: Index celebrates Arts Festival / People
Page 10: Over 2,000 witness statue unveiling

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Parade will feature new entries
Monroe’s Fair Days Parade, to be held Saturday, Aug. 23, will be about the same size as last year, but will include a few new faces, said Neil Watkins, Director of the Monroe Chamber of Commerce. Read Story

Candidates discuss issues at Monroe luncheon
U.S. 2, the economy, and health care were top among the topics discussed by political competitors at the Monroe Chamber of Commerce luncheon Tuesday. Five candidates, including opponents Dan Kristiansen and Scott Olson, Val Stevens and Fred Walser, and Kirk Pearson, whose two opponents did not appear, made prepared statements and then fielded questions from the audience at the luncheon, held at the Rock Church. Read Story

Turk band is getting in the groove

SCHOOL IS NOT YET IN SESSION, but these Sultan High School band students are already learning their moves for this year’s football season. This year’s theme will be “West Side Story,” and the multi-award winning band is rehearsing music and complex marching patterns. Photo by Jim Scolman
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Long time food bank volunteer and Monroe resident Pearl White, 100, has died. White was born Minnie Pearl Lane in Gold Bar Sept. 25, 1907, to Charles and Minnie Lane, the owners of two dry goods stores in Startup and Gold Bar. Her family had already been in the area for half a century, and an early homestead was located near where Kellogg Lake Road is now. She didn’t always live in the Sky Valley; when she was about seven, her family moved to Portland, where she attended high school and then business college before going to work at a business office. While there, she also became one of the first women to climb Mt. Hood.
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