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Muscular Dystrophy fundraiser will 'lock up' local leaders
YAKIMA -- The Muscular Dystrophy Association will sponsor the Yakima Executive Lock-Up on Tuesday at the Outback Steakhouse. Area business and civic leaders will be charged with having big hearts and will raise "bail" before their "arrest."
The event takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
With the assistance of Yakima firefighters, the jailbirds will be picked up from their places of employment and taken to the restaurant in paddy wagons. Jailbirds will be calling on friends and associates to bail them out.
Proceeds go to the association, which is dedicated to the eradication of what is commonly called Lou Gehrig's disease but is generally associated with the loss of muscle tissue in the central nervous system.
For more information, call 800-577-6716.
Goldendale-based troopers honored
GOLDENDALE -- Troopers in the Goldendale detachment of the Washington State Patrol were tops in their five-county district last year.
The troopers and support staff were selected as the Field Operations Bureau's "Detachment of the Year" for the patrol's southwestern district, which covers Klickitat, Skamania, Clark, Cowlitz, and Lewis counties, according to a news release issued this week.
Field Operations' main responsibilities are traffic enforcement and collision investigation.
Bureau commanders credited the the Goldendale squad for their focus on speed-related crashes and drunken-driving enforcement, among other key areas.
Detachment members are Sgt. Dale Retzlaff, troopers Danielle Blain, Marc Boardman, Matt Calderone, Randy Cashatt, Bill Clack, Neil Hoffberger, Greg Little and Mike Wells and office assistant Ericka Tremble.
Granger students stage dance show
GRANGER -- It's a school, so E equals MC squared, of course.
It also equals an energetic dance performance, according to Noel Manderville, director of Yakima's 11th Avenue Ballet School Foundation.
Granger Middle School students will be putting on a dance performance at 1:30 p.m. Mondayat the school, 501 Bailey Ave.
Called Art in Motion, the dancers are performing to the theme "It's all relative, the life and legacy of Albert Einstein."
Choreographed by Manderville, the event is free and open to the public.
