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We asked students from our elementary schools in Auburn to design ads for local businesses. The goal of this project is very simple. We present the students with a blank box and the businesses’ logo and address and the kids use their artistic abilities to create an original advertisement for the business. There were a total of 188 ads that were designed by the students and all of them went up on our website, which was so exciting for the kids. Now it’s your turn to get involved by voting for your
Agrishop Ace Hardware
Way Scarff Ford
City of Auburn Solid Waste
favorite ad! Go to www.auburn-reporter.com and click on the “vote now” box and select your favorite. Voting starts April 22 and will run through May 5. Vote carefully, the winning ad’s creator will receive an Athens Pizza party for their entire class! The kids are excited to see their ads in the paper this week and we’re excited to show them to you. We hope you enjoy them. Thanks again to the Auburn School District, who made it possible for their students to participate.
Tyler, Grade 5
Merry Maids
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Kelly, Grade 5
Tianna, Grade 5
Grocery Outlet
Ivonne, Grade 3
Kelly, Grade 5
HBT Insurance
Tyson, Grade 4
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Auburn Int’l Farmers Market
Alpine Ridge Insurance
Heritage Bank
Quarter Chute Cafe
Madison, Grade 5
Jenna, Grade 5
Lauryn, Grade 5
Patricia, Grade 4
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Valley Buick GMC
David, Grade 5
Head & Malesis Insurance
Caleb, Grade 5
The Rock
McDonald’s
Gabriella, Grade 4
Kelly, Grade 5
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Highline students from Auburn shine in poetry contest FOR THE REPORTER
Rebekka Paulsen’s entry, “Hello, Kidney Disease,” recently captured first place in Highline College’s Student Poetry Contest. Paulsen was one of 60 writers who submitted 113 poems to the contest, which is a prelude to Highline’s fourth annual celebration of National Poetry Month in April. “When writing the poem, I was inspired by my father’s coming to terms with his hereditary kidney
life until I was in upper disease,” said Paulsen, a elementary.” Running Start student in Born and raised in her second year at HighSouth King County, line College. She noted Paulsen graduates from that her father is living Highline in June, earning with 10 percent kidney simultaneously her associfunction while he waits for ate degree and high school a second transplant. Paulsen diploma. “My father is a couIn the fall, she attends rageous man who has worked hard to delay the progres- Anderson University in Indiana, where she will study dance sion of kidney disease. While he performance, English and French. knew at a young age that he had Her goal is to become a dance anomalies in his kidney function, instructor and author/poet. it did not begin to impact his
Winning the contest earned the 18-year-old Paulsen a $125 cash prize. “The judges were very moved by ‘Hello, Kidney Disease;’ its knockout punch caught us off guard as the speaker addresses the illness which curtails her father’s life. The poet’s skills are most evident in the controlled voice and final epic leap,” said Susan Rich, a member of the Poetry Month committee, a Highline faculty member and a published poet. Second place, with a prize of $100, went to Kelvin Hernandez of SeaTac for his poem, “The Truth of the Bicycle.”
Third place and $75 went to Tatyana Byrd of Burien for “Golden Beauties.” Honorable mention, along with a cash prize of $25, went to Auburn’s Shari Douglass (“Sandra Speaks”) and Kim Huynh (“Where I’m From”). The winning poems are on display as broadsides through May 31 in the Highline Library Exhibits and Art Gallery, Building 25, fourth floor. Highline’s main campus is located midway between Seattle and Tacoma at South 240th Street and Pacific Highway South (Highway 99).
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McDonald’s
Lucas, Grade 5
Hop Jack’s
The Rock
Colton, Grade 4
King County Library Auburn
Athens Pizza
Aubrie, Grade 5
Liberty Jane
Asher, Grade 4
Selena, Grade 4
Ellie, Grade 4