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Lending wounded vets a helping hand BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
COMMUNITY: Armed Forces Reserve Center opening delayed until fall. Page 5
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ARLINGTON — Ask Arlington resident Jesse Scott and he’ll tell you that necessity was the mother of his invention. However, even though Scott is an avid fly fisher, he doesn’t need to be able to tie his flies one-handed since he has the use of both his arms. When he first met Marvin Johnson, though, Johnson’s left arm had been rendered completely immobile. Scott is a Vietnam veteran who retired as a colonel in the Air Force in 1987, while Johnson was a sergeant first class in the Army who’d incurred his injuries in Iraq in 2006. When Scott met Johnson at the Madigan Army Medical Center at Fort Lewis, the
older man felt compelled to help a fellow war veteran and fly fisher. The helping hand Scott came up with would eventually be named the “Evergreen Hand,” in honor of the Evergreen Fly Fishing Club in Everett, of which Scott is a member. “I saw it as a source of occupational therapy for wounded veterans,” Scott said of the compact plasticand-metal device, whose multiple-hinged metal arm can be fitted with fine-tuning tools that attach easily to its magnetic plate. “It came about from a lot of trial and error, but I knew I needed to duplicate the movements of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand in moving things nearer and further, as well as in holding things so that SEE VETS, PAGE 2
Kirk Boxleitner/Staff Photo
Jesse Scott examines the results of his handiwork on the ‘Evergreen Hand,’ whose multiple-hinged metal arm can be fitted with fine-tuning tools, to replace everything from the shoulders to the fingers of a missing or inoperable arm, for those who need to be tie fishing flies one-handed.
Everett Clinic plans Lakewood facility BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
LAKEWOOD — By late next year, area residents should expect to have a new option in health care available
to them. The Everett Clinic broke ground on its planned two-story, 60,000-squarefoot, $24 million facility north of 172nd Street NE and west of I-5
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Local patients could walk through the front doors of this building as early as the fall of next year, when the Everett Clinic expects to open its Lakewood facility.
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on July 21, as Everett Clinic Chief Operating Officer Mark Mantei explained that the 3.6-acre site would serve as the grounds for an even bigger building than their branch in Smokey Point, hosting a broader cross-section of health care services than any Everett Clinic outside of their main offices in Everett itself. “We’re reinventing health care by strengthening the relationship between patients and physicians,” Mantei said. “This clinic embodies that vision.” Mantei elaborated that this groundbreaking came after a year and a half of planning, including mockups and designs that eventually covered the walls of entire hallways, during which staff members
and patients alike were invited to contribute their insights. Stanwood resident Leah TremlEllis currently goes to the Everett Clinic branch in Marysville, but she plans to start going to Lakewood as soon as that facility is open by its target date in the fall of 2012, She attended the groundbreaking because she was one of the patients whose input guided the design of the Lakewood facility. “They listened to me at every step, even about the smallest things,” said Treml-Ellis, who’d told clinic staff that she preferred to have the weight-scales in the exam rooms rather than out in the hallways, to avoid feeling selfSEE FACILITY, PAGE 19
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