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Angelica Rodriguez crashes into the slope of the small ramp at the foot of one of the snow-covered hills in Jennings Park on Jan. 20.
MARYSVILLE — The three-day weekend for Martin Luther King Jr. Day turned into a full week’s worth of snow-days for many Marysville residents, but even as the snow finally stopped falling and started melting on Friday, Jan. 20, the snow-covered hills of Jennings Park still attracted their share of kids and parents alike who were glad to have the day off. “It’s about time we had some snow,” said Rafael Valenzuela, who slid down the slopes on an inner-tube with his 7-year-old daughter Grace. “It’s nice to be able to get outside and have fun like this without having to go all the way to the mountains.” Pedro Rodriguez not only SEE SNOW, PAGE 2
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Vol. 119, No. 45
Many see need for drug take-back program BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
OLYMPIA — Snohomish County could serve as the model for a proposed drug take-back program designed to save lives statewide, which is why Snohomish County Sheriff John Lovick is among those urging citizens to contact their state Legislators to voice their support for it. “When I was in the state Legislature, we were told never to say that a bill was a ‘no-brainer,’” Lovick said. “But this proposed program should be a no-brainer.” Although Snohomish County has taken part in national drug
take-back days in the past, no permanent statewide, state-funded drug take-back program exists for the sorts of controlled substances that Dr. Gary Goldbaum, health officer with the Snohomish Health District, cited as responsible for a significant percentage of the deaths from unintended poisoning in Snohomish County. Goldbaum also reported that deaths due to unintentional poisoning have exceeded the deaths due to motor vehicle accidents in Snohomish County, and across the nation. “These aren’t suicides, and while people do overdose on illegal drugs, most of these are prescription
drugs,” Goldbaum said. “Children have access to them at home. Wellmeaning healthcare providers prescribe more than people need and it sits in their medicine cabinets, unused.” Goldbaum acknowledged that people might have received mixed messages on how to dispose of old drugs, with advice ranging from flushing it down the toilet to mixing it with coffee grounds in solid waste, but he asserted that incineration of such drugs is the only guaranteed way to avoid the risk of those chemicals contaminating the SEE DRUGS, PAGE 2
Snohomish County Sheriff John Lovick