Blood Drive Honors Former Mayor Rivas

By Michael Wagar Nisqually Valley News

Posted 6/27/14

Former Yelm Mayor Adam Rivas died of complications from leukemia last summer on June 19. At his memorial service in the Performing Arts Center at Yelm High School, family friend Kathy Crandall …

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