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Many local comic book stores are participating in Free Comic Book Day today. Go to www.freecomicbookday.com to search for stores where you can get your free book. Some stores also have activities planned.
Mill Creek homeowners in 21 neighborhoods around the golf course have garage sales today. The event has no official schedule, but those who start early, around 7 a.m., are more likely to find deals.
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Plant sales
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A huge number of plant sales are planned this weekend, including the Snohomish County Master Gardeners sale at McCollum Park, 600 128th St. SE, Everett, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. today. For a complete list of sales, go to www.heraldnet. com/plantsales.
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First hospice unit could open The in-patient service, which would be located in Everett, would help people who are too ill to be treated at home. By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
Snohomish County’s first inpatient hospice service could open by the end of next year, pending
approval from the state Department of Health. The $5 million unit, which could serve up to 16 patients, would open on the Colby campus of Providence Regional Medical
Center Everett. The request to open the new service was made by Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County. The nonprofit service, which was founded in 1978, currently assists patients in their homes. Last year, it served 1,776 children and adults, said Angelique
Leone, foundation director for Providence Hospice and Homecare of Snohomish County. The inpatient service would provide help to patients who are too ill to be treated at home. Hospice patients are admitted to inpatient units when their symptoms, such as pain, aren’t being adequately managed at home.
OSO MUDSLIDE
A calling to help victims
Once the symptoms are under better control, they can be sent home, if that’s where they want to be, Leone said. Other patients are admitted to inpatient centers when their family caregivers need a temporary break. And some are admitted just before their death. See HOSPICE, Page A5
Risks found across county By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
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People line up outside Immaculate Conception Church in Arlington on Thursday to sign their names then attend a funeral for four mudslide victims.
Catholic church in Arlington supports families, no matter their faith Herald Writer
the buzz
ARLINGTON — The bright yellow files are stacked neatly in the Rev. Tim Sauer’s office at Immaculate Conception Church in Arlington. Each folder has a name. Many contain invoices. Some are thicker than others. With each, the church hopes to soften a family’s grief or, at the
very least, allay their financial fears a bit. Like other churches, Catholic parishioners felt a calling to help after the deadly March 22 Oso mudslide. Their goal is to shoulder the funeral expenses, regardless of one’s faith or lack of faith. Of the 43 people who died or are missing, seven were known to attend the Catholic church. From the start, denomination
Househunters Mansion mania: Sales of homes costing $1 million or more rose 7.8 percent in March from a year earlier, while house totaling $250,000 or less by mere mortals plunged 12 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors (Page A8). Even though these are salad days for the wealthy,
didn’t matter. With backing from the Archdiocese of Seattle and help from Catholic Community Services, church officials contacted funeral homes and asked that all bills be sent directly to them. Burying the dead is one of the Catholic church’s seven Corporal Works of Mercy, a list that includes feeding the hungry, See HELP, Page A2
remember that such a hot market creates a lot of disappointed would-be buyers who missed out on that adorable 21,000-squarefoot beach home in the shingle style, with car elevator, 12,000-bottle wine cellar and the room in the basement for the live-in nanny.
are hitting American consumers at a most inopportune time: Cinco de Mayo (Page A8). Things have gotten so bad that when you ask for the top-shelf stuff in your margarita Monday, the bartender will assume you’re talking not about Don Julio Reposado but lime juice.
Lots of green for green: Soaring prices for limes
Meanwhile, on the Jersey Shore: When a dead minke
The Rev. Tim Sauer
whale washed ashore in Atlantic City, N.J., someone, possibly some area frat boys, tagged the 15-footlong body with graffiti (Page A7). If the taggers are caught, The Buzz suggests an appropriate punishment would be the dumping of the putrefying whale corpse in their back yard.
— Mark Carlson and Christina Okeson, Herald staff
See RISKS, Page A2
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By Eric Stevick
If you have a nice view, chances are you live near a landslide waiting to happen — though it’s possible the earth will stay put for thousands of years. Local cities have been fielding more questions about landslide risks since the collapse of a hillside in Oso killed at least 41 people. Communities near coastal bluffs or above lowland valleys don’t face the same type of risk as the March 22 slide. Still, the calamity in the North Fork Stillaguamish River valley has people everywhere in Snohomish County hankering to learn more about the ground above and below. “We do have a lot of steep slopes and we’re definitely talking about the issue and what we’re going to do moving forward,” Mukilteo Mayor Jennifer Gregerson said. “Views of the sound usually go along with slopes.” Most prevalent along coastal bluffs and in mountain valleys, landslide risks nevertheless can be found throughout the county. Places such as Woodway and Picnic Point have seen some of the more spectacular slides. Moving earth also has been a problem in Marysville, where a sloughing slope endangered homes above the Cedarcrest Golf Course in the late 1990s.
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