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Tulalip paddle carver shares his art BY KIRK BOXLEITNER kboxleitner@marysvilleglobe.com
SPORTS: M-P serves Eagles 18-0 defeat. Page 10
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Tulalip Tribal member Jason Gobin tapers down the blade of a canoe paddle at the Hibulb Cultural Center on April 21.
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Lakewood voters pass school levies
SPORTS: Cougars demolish Wildcats twice. Page 10
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TULALIP — Jason Gobin has been carving canoe paddles since the age of 6, when he started learning from his grandfather, and on Saturday, April 21, the Tulalip Tribal member gave visitors to the Hibulb Cultural Center a few of the insights he’s gleaned from his nearly three decades of experience. As part of the Hibulb Cultural Center’s lecture and film series, Gobin treated spectators to a show, with the wood and carving tools that he’d brought along, and answered their questions about his practice as he worked. “You have to watch your center line and side lines,” Gobin said as he hacked away at the pre-marked and
partially pre-carved length of yellow cedar with an adz that he’d built himself. “If those are wavy, everything will come out crooked.” Gobin dispelled the notion that a paddle needs to be thick to be strong, holding up a thin paddle that his grandfather had carved during the 1940s which is still usable today. “It doesn’t need to be a club if it’s tapered right,” said Gobin, who nonetheless noted that some war paddles include sharp tips. “A lot of it is just feeling the high spots where the wood needs to come off. I’ve done hundreds of paddles myself, and I just go into automatic mode after a while.” As with his grandfather’s paddle, Gobin emphasized that his own paddles are
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LAKEWOOD — With unofficial results showing both of the Lakewood School District’s levies in the April 17 special election passing, district Superintendent Dr. Dennis Haddock expressed cautious optimism about the fates of funding for school programs and operations, as well as capital projects and technology. “Unless a ton of ballots are left to be counted, I suspect the current results are unlikely to be turned upside down,” Haddock said, noting that both of the school district’s measures require only simple majorities to pass. “Still, I don’t want to be too brash, so we’ll continue to watch the results very carefully.” As of 3:19 p.m. on April 20, the Snohomish County Elections Office
had reported that 1,653 “yes” votes, or 58.31 percent of the votes counted by that point, were cast for the replacement school programs and operations levy, and 1,558 “yes” votes, or 55.03 percent of the votes counted by that point, were cast for the capital projects and technology levy. Regardless of the eventual outcome, Haddock expressed his gratitude to the community for their support of Lakewood schools, especially since he estimated that 23 percent of the district’s general fund will come from the replacement levy. “We’ll always be looking for ways to economize without compromising quality instruction,” Haddock said. “But for the first time in three years of state and federal budget cuts, we’re now able to avoid staff reductions and maintain our SEE LEVIES, PAGE 2
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A breakdown of what will be funded by the Lakewood School District’s replacement school programs and operations levy.
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