Everett Daily Herald, May 12, 2014

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Today is the first day for candidates to file to run for dozens of county, state and federal offices. Candidates can register online or in person. Most will need to pay a filing fee. Primary is Aug. 5. See Page A3.

Fresh off the draft, the Super Bowl champion Seahawks will take a look at all their rookies at a minicamp starting Friday.

Aviation Day Check out classic airplanes and talk to pilots at the 19th annual Paine Field Aviation Day on Saturday. Admission is $10; those 16 and younger get in free. MONDAY, 05.12.2014

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Brouhaha over brew rule

OSO MUDSLIDE

Man lost in slide a respected mason

Beer brewers, farmers worried FDA could spoil good thing

Lon Slauson’s co-workers remember him as someone who looked out for his fellow employees. By Amy Nile Herald Writer

OSO — Lon Slauson was getting ready to sell his Steelhead Drive home and move to Montana. He was counting down the few remaining weeks until he’d be in Big Sky country, said co-worker Brad Nordquist. Slauson, 60, died in the March 22 mudslide that buried his neighborhood. “We have a lot of people who are affected by this,” said Nordquist, of Arlington’s Medallion Hotel. “He was an awesome guy. He was super nice, always friendly.” The two men worked the graveyard shift at the hotel together for more than a year. Slauson was a security guard and Nordquist manned the front desk. Slauson, who served in the U.S. Army as a young man, watched out for his fellow employees. Nordquist said he often walked people to their cars at night. Slauson started working security after he retired in 2009 from his career as a cement mason.

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Shawn Loring, owner of Lazy Boy Brewing in Everett, unloads 1,000 pounds of spent grain from a tank at his facility in Everett on Wednesday afternoon. Loring will unload a tank this size two to three times a week, and a local farmer will come pick up the grain to feed to livestock.

By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

EVERETT — What beer makers don’t want, farmers do. It’s those soggy used-up grains, a by-product of the brewing process, that farmers relish as feed for their livestock. Brewers give the grain away to those willing to pick it up. This practice, considered sustainable

and environmentally responsible, has gone on for years without interference from government. But a federal agency is pondering changes in how animal feed is handled, and brewers, farmers and federal lawmakers are worried it could seriously crimp, or even end, the longstanding practice. As now written, the proposal

drafted by the Food and Drug Administration implies that brewers and distillers would need to completely dry and package their spent grain before giving it to farmers. “If they pass this it will put a financial burden on a lot of people,” said Shawn Loring, owner of Lazy Boy Brewing in Everett. “It will add costs to the amount of beer that you make and it will

have an immediate impact on the price.” Brewers would need to buy and install driers capable of handling the large volumes of grain used in the beer-making process. And that could force smaller brewers out of business because the equipment is expensive and the power to run

See MASON, back page, this section

See BREW, Page A6

6,000 honor Indian leader Frank By Lisa Pemberton The Olympian

the buzz

There were stories, prayers and songs. And there were a few cuss words sprinkled in — largely for effect — because it’s hard to talk about the legacy and life of Billy Frank Jr. without mentioning his famous “Jesus Christ!” greeting, or “Who the hell is in

charge here?” Friends and family members recalled those quotes during the late Nisqually leader’s funeral service Sunday at the Little Creek Casino Resort’s Event Center near Shelton. “We’re all going to miss this great man,” Squaxin Island tribal chairman David Lopeman said. “I always considered him chief — chief of all of us.”

Bud for bovines Hefeweizen for the heifers: Brewers, farmers and lawmakers alike are concerned about the language in a proposed FDA rule that would require beer makers to dry spent grain, a by-product of brewing, that they give to farmers for free as cattle feed. Drying would increase costs for them, the brewers say (above).

Dairy farmers say it would increase their costs, too, because they’d have to start buying beer for their cows to keep them contented. Just sprinkle some more cheese on it: The makers of Dreamfields Pasta have agreed to settle a lawsuit and will pay $5 million to consumers who bought what it advertised as a low-

Frank, longtime chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, died May 5 at age 83. He was a central figure in the Indian fish-ins during the 1960s and ’70s that led to the court ruling known as the Boldt decision. The case affirmed 20 coastal and Western Washington treaty tribes’ rights to 50 percent of harvestable salmon. “His legacy is going to live on until the end of time,” Frank’s son, Willie Frank, told The Olympian See FRANK, back page, this section

carbohydrate alternative to traditional pasta. Studies found the claim was false (Page A5). Prior to the settlement, lawyers for the pasta maker argued that the low-carb claim wasn’t about the pasta but about the cardboard box it came in. He’s just big-boned: Japanese moviegoers say they are unimpressed with

STEVE BLOOM / THE OLYMPIAN

”His legacy is going to live on until the end of time,” said Willie Frank, recalling his father, Billy Frank Jr., at a memorial Sunday in Shelton that honored the environmental and Indian rights activist who died May 5.

the computer-generated Godzilla in the new movie set for release this weekend. The new Godzilla’s head is too small, his arms hang limply, and some have called him too fat (Page A2). Hurt by the criticism, a sullen Godzilla bought 40,000 pints of Ben & Jerry’s, sprinkled some crushed Tokyo over the top and shame-ate the whole thing.

—Jon Bauer, Herald staff

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Billy Frank Jr., the Nisqually leader and longtime chairman of the Indian fisheries commission, was honored by state, federal and tribal leaders.

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