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05 /6569. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Department formally commissioned its new patrol boat, “Kent Mundell� to honor the fallen deputy.

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he Pierce County Sheriff ’s Department formally commissioned its new patrol boat last week. The vessel is named “Kent Mundell� to honor the fallen deputy. Mundell was killed in a gunfight in 2009 with a drunken man at a home outside Eatonville. “It was just an opportunity to

have a long-lasting memorial for Kent,� said Lt. Jerry Lawrence. Mundell never worked with the 20-member marine services unit, Lawrence said. But some in that unit are primarily assigned to the Mountain Detachment, where Mundell was based. The 36-foot vessel has been in service since May and already has

two rescues to its credit. It replaces the “Reliance,� a 22-year-old patrol boat that sank in 2011 and has since been scrapped. Most of the cost of the new, $725,000 boat was covered by Homeland Security grants in partnership with Port of Tacoma and through recreational boat registration fees collected by Washington state.

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It’s been an active few days on Tacoma Weekly’s mink and ferret beat. Like weasels and ermine, mink and ferrets are among the 69 members of the mustelidae family. “Mustelidae,� as you likely know, is Latin for “You have to change their cages often if you want to live in the same house with them.� Both are big in the animal rights movement – mink in the fur industry, and ferrets in the lab animal arena. Nursing staff at Franke Tobey Jones thought they were dealing with a frightened pet ferret when a slinky critter dashed through the

front doors. “We open the front doors to the main entrance in the summer,� said registered nurse Deborah Buttorff. “It just ran in there. It ran all the way to the health care center.� Quick on their feet, the nurses moved to contain it. “We got it into a bathroom,� Buttorff said. “We just kind of guided it. Then the maintenance man helped me guide it into a garbage bucket.� Buttorff called her friend Charlie Rice and asked him to rush right over with a cat carrier and a can of cat food. “We managed to guide it into the carrier, and it immediately started to eat,� Buttorff said. “It was very scared. Very scared. And lost. And

vulnerable.� Rice did not share those tender feelings on the drive from Point Defiance to the Humane Society at 2608 Center Street. “He bared his teeth and made some terrible noises,� said Rice, a retired editor at The News Tribune. Rice’s former job explains the unpleasant newspaper incident at the Humane Society, said executive director Kathleen Olson. “We put a piece of newspaper in its cage, and it screamed and tore it up,� said Deborah Johnson, who works the front desk. “It smelled terrible. He was trying to chew his way out of the cage.� They thought they were dealing X See MUSTELIDAE / page A9

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Salishan was all about punching despair in the nose in 1997. The houses, built in a hurry for World War II shipyard workers, were worn out public housing. Tacoma Housing Authority had tried, and failed, to rehab them. The very name was stained by a legacy of drugs, gangs and violence. But the people who lived there were better than that. When the Rev. Ron Pierre Vignec introduced the idea of organizing around their strengths, not their weaknesses, they embraced it. They worked with police, Tacoma Housing Authority, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department, Tacoma Schools and Washington State University Extension Service and built multi-language phone trees, support groups, a residents’ council – and a garden. You could hear every language spoken in Tacoma there as residents grew their own healthy foods. They came to that spot to work toward better lives. “The City of Tacoma Arts Commission wanted to do public art in the neighborhoods,� said Sue Bernstein, who was running the garden at the time. “Michael Sullivan pushed the idea of Salishan.� Commission members visited the garden, and wondered how the neighborhood might benefit if residents could come to that spot and relax and visit as well as work. They settled on the idea of a gathering spot. The city contracted with Milenko Matanovic, founder of The Pomegranate Center, which works with residents to design and build gathering places intended to draw communities together. Matanovic’s team headed down from Issaquah and enlisted Bernstein as community liaison. She convened conversations with residents, who talked about what they’d like, and how the finished spot would reflect who they are.

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