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JUSTIN,
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to take care of us as family.
When we got the call that day,
they did what they could to
get us there.”
While Brandy has plenty
of siblings, Justin had just one,
younger brother Jason. Jus-
tin was born in January 1991,
while Jason was born in De-
cember of that year.
“They were very close
in size, age and everything,”
Brandy said. “It was just the
two of them. Jason doesn’t talk
about it much, even still.”
A smile comes to Brandy’s
face when talking about some
of Justin’s habits.
“He collected the most
random things,” Brandy said.
“Just anything. Pocketfuls of
rocks, bark chips that looked
interesting, anything. At one
point he had a suitcase full of
snakes. I was so mad when I
opened that suitcase.”
One of Justin’s main inter-
ests isn’t something normally
associated with teenage boys.
“He loved gardening,”
Brandy said. “He would sep-
arate out the seeds. At one
AREA
C,
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total valuation for all build-
ings is $18 million. The listed
addresses are all on the 5400
block of McLeod, except for
one listed as 5500 McLeod.
On July 14, a permit was
applied for by Mountain West
Community
Construction
and owner Bonaventure Se-
nior Living for a four-story
senior living facility at 5525
McLeod. The listed valua-
tion was $19,497,628 and was
160,015 square feet.
“There are multiple build-
ings,” Moore said of the
Mountain West apartments.
“Most of the buildings will
have 12 units in them and will
be three stories. There will
be a total of 180 units, plus a
commons area.”
While the original hope
was to have buildings ready
by the end of the year, Moore
gave an updated timeline.
Submitted
(From left) James Stohmeyer, Carol Louie, Ron Stohmeyer,
Brandy Thomas and Debra and Jack Norton visited Justin
Wood’s grave at Claggett Creek Cemetery on July 18.
point he had the seeds in a
tackle box. He dropped it and
the seeds scattered. He was so
frustrated, he just threw the
whole pile into the garden.
To this day, we’ll get random
plants. There will be a green
bean next to a carrot and a
corn stalk, with a random to-
mato right there as well. That’s
his legacy.”
Brandy, who noted some-
one keeps putting new fl owers
by Justin’s gravesite at Claggett
Creek Cemetery, was pleased
by how many people came last
Saturday.
“Everybody felt better after
Saturday,” she said. “His good
friends came. They think of
him often. That surprised me.
We tried to leave it on a posi-
tive note with pictures of fam-
ily. Yes this was horrible, but
there’s light at the end of the
tunnel.”
Every time Brandy sees
a story about youth drown-
ing without a lifejacket on, it
hurts.
“I get so frustrated when
I see how many kids we lose
without lifejackets,” she said.
“If either (Justin or his cous-
in) had a lifejacket on, we
wouldn’t be here. That’s the
hardest thing for me, to see
kids dying like that.”
“I can’t speak to the tim-
ing for Bonaventure, but as to
our own vertical construction
I suspect it will be mid-fall,”
Moore said. “Our target is for
the fi rst units to be delivered
in June 2016 on the apart-
ments.”
When councilors approved
plans in February, a condition
was added calling for side-
walks to be built on the east
side of Chemawa from the
Chemawa/Lockhaven Avenue
intersection to the south-
east corner of the retirement
community, from the existing
sidewalk next to Countryside
Church to the McLeod/Che-
mawa intersection, through
Area C to the southeast corner
of the area and on the oppo-
site side of the McLeod/Che-
mawa intersection abutting
retail development in Area
C-2, continuing on McLeod
past the multi-family develop-
ment to the southeast corner
of the development adjacent
to the railroad tracks.
Because of the infrastruc-
ture work being done for the
project, city councilors ap-
proved a request in April to
establish a reimbursement dis-
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Getting
dramatic
About 100 local students took part in
the annual McNary Area Drama Camp last
week.
Participants spent the week playing im-
provisational and miming games leading up
to a fi nal performance Friday, July 17.
Top left: Kylie McNeely does her best im-
pression of a wind-up horse.
Top right: Trevor Ratliff attempts to sell his
donkey (Titus Thomas).
Left: Kalya Toavs (kneeling), Riley Auvinen
and Kelsey Jarnagin take part in an improv
scene.
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