REGIONAL NEWS BRIEFS

Olympian staff

LACEY

Land deal for new fire station sealed

Lacey Fire District 3 closed the sale on property for a new fire station Monday, Chief Jim Broman said.

The fire district signed an agreement Nov. 18 to buy the site.

The new station will be at the old Copeland Lumber site at Franz Street and Pacific Avenue. It will replace the headquarters on Pacific Avenue, east of the new site.

OLYMPIA

Scheme gets Yelm man jail time, fine

A Yelm man who ran two businesses while collecting time-loss benefits from the state was sentenced Monday to 10 months in jail for four felonies.

Albert F. Albert, 62, pleaded guilty to four counts of providing false information for industrial insurance benefits, said Jim Powers, a deputy prosecuting attorney.

The judge ordered Albert to repay $74,679.44.

Albert began collecting benefits in 1994 for a back injury, Powers said.

He ran Giorgio's Coffee at 1008 Yelm Avenue, Yelm, from May 1997 to August 2000, and a Yelm restaurant called Giorgio's Sidedoor and Giorgio's Bistro for about a year starting in the summer of 1998, Powers said.

A brief reference to Albert's coffee business in a doctor's letter alerted the state Department of Labor and Industries.

SOUTH SOUND

ACLU official to speak at campus

Doug Honig, public education director of the American Civil Liberties Union, will speak on "Keeping America Safe and Free" at 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in the Student Union Building at South Puget Sound Community College.

RAINIER

School board seat remains vacant

Rainier School District officials have extended the timeline for filling a vacant seat on the school board.

Anyone interested in the seat vacated last month by Keith Meyer should submit a letter of intent to Superintendent Jerry Black no later than 4 p.m. Feb. 12.

Mail letters to the superintendent at 307 Alaska St., Rainier, WA 98576. For more information about the position, call 360-446-2207or e-mail the superintendent at blackj@ rs1.rainier.wednet.edu.

The Olympian Copyright 2002

back to main South Sound index