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COMMUNITY: Tulalip Tribes hand out $5.48 million. Page 3
Volunteers turn out for estuary project BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE — Between Sept. 23 and 24, close to 100 volunteers showed up at Harborview Park in southern Marysville to help get the local ecosystem going again, even though most of them don’t live or work in town. The nearly 60 volunteers from Philips Healthcare, the Everett YMCA and the Sno-Isle Libraries who turned out on Friday, Sept. 23, represented the start of the Qwuloolt Estuary Restoration Project. They and their fellow volunteers on Saturday, Sept. 24, planted more than 850 native trees and shrubs on eight-tenths of an acre on the eastern side of the Qwuloolt Estuary, but over the course of the next 15 months the restoration project plans to conduct such plantings on 10 acres of territory around the marsh. Sound Salmon Solutions, formerly known as the Stilly-Snohomish Fisheries Enhancement Task Force, is working with the Tulalip Tribes to get the restoration site ready for the breaching of the levy in 2013. “This was the first time we really got our SEE ESTUARY, PAGE 2
SPORTS: Tomahawks fall to Arlington 45-28. Page 8
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SPORTS: Chargers win game, lose match to Everett. Page 8
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Lamdouane Keoamphay, an employee of Philips Healthcare, joins nearly 60 other volunteers in planting native trees and shrubs in the Qwuloolt Estuary at Harborview Park on Sept. 23.
Forum focuses on human trafficking BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
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Dusty Olson, advocate and volunteer coordinator for the Providence Intervention Center for Assault and Abuse, speaks about human trafficking.
MARYSVILLE — “When we talk about human trafficking, we hear people say that it doesn’t happen here,” said Dusty Olson, advocate and volunteer coordinator for the Providence Intervention Center for Assault and Abuse. “But these are girls from Marysville, Lake Stevens and Everett who are being recruited and exploited.” Olson joined FBI Special Agent Derik Stone and Sarah Sweeney, director of “Not For Sale” of Washington, in addressing the Marysville Chapter of Soroptimist
International on Sept. 22 to discuss domestic minor sex trafficking, the commercial sexual exploitation of underage children in America. Olson became aware of the problem of local human trafficking through years of working with sexual assault victims, and as she addressed an audience that included Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring and Marysville School District Superintendent Dr. Larry Nyland, she noted the unique difficulties of trying to aid such exploited children. “We don’t refer to them as juvenile prostitutes, because that implies the false idea that they have a choice,”
Olson said. “They’re prostituted children, because it’s what’s happened to them, not who they are.” At the same time, Olson and Stone acknowledged that such children are conditioned by their exploiters to see themselves as having chosen their lives, to the point that they’ll often lie to protect their exploiters and remain with them. “A pimp senses what a child is vulnerable to — what they need that they’re not getting, whether it’s a father figure or a romantic relationship — and then sells them the dream,” Olson said. “They genuSEE FORUM, PAGE 2