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Much more inside!
Page 1:
Monroe students share
   their blessings
Monroe businesses struggle
   to survive the recession
Page 2:
Around The Valley
Flashback
MHS plans winter bash
Evergreen Speedway is looking
   for new logo ideas
Get the jump on winter storms
Page 3:
Fairgrounds, senior center
   winners in county budget
Get "In the Mood" for the
   holidays at Monroe
   performance
Man jumps from High Bridge
Page 4:
Professional Directory /
Church Directory /
Find It Fast Directory
Page 5:
Editor's Notebook:
   "Making a grown cameraman
    cry"
Good Deeds
Letters
Monroe to get community
   theater
Page 6:
The Valley News:
"Everyone gets a little something"
   Sultan Food Bank shoulders
   heavy burden
Sultan Library Board to meet
Toy run, spaghetti feed planned
Sultan council to meet planning
   board applicants
Classified ads
Legal Notices
Page 7:
December Health and Beauty
Page 8:
EvCC to hold info night at MHS
Sports
MHS presents "The Foreigner"
VGH has new van
Ethics board has vacancy
Sultan Library events
Sultan FFA news

Winner of 24 Washington Newspaper
Publishers Association awards for 2007-8!

Federal Way teen puts the giving in Thanksgiving
with help from Monroe inmates

Before she even loaded her wagon from the trunk of the car in downtown Seattle
Thanksgiving morning, Megan Johnson, 17, was giving away hats. Homeless
people flocked to the car for gifts of hand-crocheted hats and scarfs and
homemade blankets, bringing a grin to the face of the slight Federal Way
teen. The gift completed a cycle of giving that included some of society’s
least-loved people, Megan said.
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Muttshack rescues
animals in disaster
In the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, Red Cross government liason David Friedman of Monroe saw a kind of victim he’d never seen in those numbers before. Dogs. Thousands of them. Everywhere were the bodies of dogs, tied to trees, in the attics of houses, sometimes tied to the owners who refused to leave them.
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Fairgrounds, Senior Center winners in county budget
Snohomish County's "painful" 2009 council budget won't hurt the Sky Valley. In fact, it will help the senior center and could help the fairgrounds. Countywide, the government faced huge cutbacks due to rising costs and reduced incomes. As a result, about 160 county positions were eliminated, many for planning.
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