ABERDEEN – Sierra Pacific Industries will delay construction of a new stud mill in Grays Harbor County while it figures out where best to put an additional sawmill and co-generation power plant somewhere in the north Puget Sound region.
Sierra Pacific last week scrapped plans to construct a $100 million mill on the Everett riverfront because the city put too many requirements on the California-based timber company, according to a statement by Red Emmerson, president of Sierra Pacific.
“We still have great faith in the Aberdeen area and we intend to move ahead with our plan there,” Sierra Pacific spokesman Ed Bond said Wednesday.
But “we can only do one mill at a time. As soon as we secure another site, and once it’s constructed, we will refocus on Aberdeen.”
Sierra Pacific has yet to turn in any building plans or apply for permits for the proposed stud mill at Aberdeen’s east city limits. Now it will likely hold off on doing so until the Puget Sound sawmill is complete, Bond said.
The Daily World
Buckley: Player winds up 54th in poker series
Well, at least now Jamie Butt can change his clothes. Or buy new ones.
The Buckley resident’s run at the 36th annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas ended Wednesday when he lost a head-to-head match with a veteran Vegas player.
He left the tournament in 54th place out of more than 5,600 who started. He earned $173,880 for his efforts. The tournament’s winner will get $7.5 million.
Butt hadn’t changed clothes for six days so as not to mess with a lucky streak.
“I’m a former athlete, and all athletes are superstitious,” he said. “I’ve been wearing the same underwear for six days.”
He found himself playing at ESPN’s featured table Wednesday with some of the game’s big names. But it all came crashing down about 1:45 p.m. Wednesday in one hand against Sean Sheikhan.
Butt drew what is considered a good hand in No-Limit Hold ‘em: two queens in the hole to pair with the best three of the five cards to come. Butt said he was feeling good about his chances until he raised the pot $350,000 midway through the hand and Sheikhan called. Butt went “all in,” pushing the rest of his chips to the middle of the table.
Both players flipped their cards. Sheikhan showed aces. Butt needed a third lady to push him to victory. She didn’t show, and that was that.
Butt said he has no regrets.
“It was a great experience, but also really hard,” he said. “Everyone says playing cards is easy, but it’s not. It’s very exhausting.”
The News Tribune
Fort Lewis: Soldier is arrested in wife’s death
A soldier who returned to Fort Lewis in April after being wounded in Iraq has been charged with premeditated murder in the death of his wife, the Army said Thursday.
Spc. Brandon Bare, 19, an infantryman, has been confined since Tuesday, when he was arrested after his wife’s body was found. The body of Nabila Bare, 18, was discovered at the couple’s home on the Army post south of Tacoma.
Bare was assigned to Fort Lewis in November 2003 after receiving his initial training at Fort Benning, Ga., and was deployed as a member of the Stryker brigade last fall.
Associated Press
Seattle: Man pleads innocent in stabbing
A man charged with fatally stabbing his father in the back with a kitchen knife has pleaded not guilty after saying the older man had molested him from the time he was 4 or 5 years old.
David Jaber, 49, of Federal Way, who is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Fred Jaber, 78, entered the plea Wednesday in King County Superior Court.
According to documents filed in court, he told investigators his father demanded sex in exchange for allowing him to live at the older man’s apartment in Federal Way.
Jaber said he called his mother and told her about the sexual relationship with his father, then “snapped” after she said she didn’t care and his father also dismissed the conversation, investigators wrote.
Federal Way police found the father lying in a hallway with a large kitchen knife in his back June 26. He died later at Harborview Medical Center after telling officers his son had stabbed him.
Associated Press
Oregon: Man arrested in shop owner’s slaying
The owner of a downtown Grants Pass printing business was shot dead outside his shop by an acquaintance, police said.
Thomas Reese, 44, of Tacoma was arrested and charged with murder in the Wednesday night shooting of Corey Medina, 43, of Grants Pass in a parking lot behind the Mac Graphically Yours shop, Sgt. Rob Gunderson said.
Acting on a witness’ description, police stopped a Pontiac Firebird in nearby Gold Hill, where Reese was arrested at gunpoint, police said.
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