Everett Daily Herald, May 17, 2014

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The Antique and Classic Motorcycle Show is 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday on First Street in downtown Snohomish. Live music. Free to watch, $15 to register; www.sky valleybikeshow.com. For more, see A3.

Paine Field Aviation Day is 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Flight demos, aircraft displays, flights for kids. Park at 9801 27th Place W., Everett, or 10719 Bernie Webber Drive, Mukilteo and take shuttles; www.painefield.com

The Everett Farmers Market opens for the season from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday at 1600 W. Marine View Drive. The market features fresh produce, flowers, baked goods, cheese and more. An area is also devoted to arts and crafts vendors.

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Labor More funds urged for mapping board warns Boeing OSO MUDSLIDE

Lawmakers ask colleagues to nearly triple the budget for the program that monitors the dangers of landslides. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer

OSO — The federal program tasked with keeping people safe

from landslides has a staff of 20 — for the entire country. U.S. House members who represent parts of Snohomish County want that to change.

They’re urging colleagues to free up more federal dollars for landslide research following the March 22 Oso disaster that claimed at least 41 lives. U.S. Reps. Suzan DelBene, Rick Larsen and Jim McDermott on Thursday sent a letter to key colleagues asking them to

nearly triple the budget for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Landslide Hazards Program. That would boost funding to $10 million, from about $3.5 million now. “It is the smallest and See FUNDS, back page, this section

Music comes to Everett’s ears

The company plans to fight a ruling that found SPEEA members were illegally photographed and videotaped during marches.

First year of Fisherman’s Village festival brings 70 acts to city

By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer

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By Quinn Russell Brown Herald Writer

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EVERETT — This weekend’s Fisherman’s Village Music Festival is showing off the sounds of Snohomish County and showing off Snohomish County to bands from Seattle. The two-day, 70-act event kicked off downtown last night and continues through

midnight tonight. “It doesn’t make any sense why this is in Everett,” said Scotty Smith, 21, of Everett. “But it’s beautiful.” Smith is the lead singer of Fauna Shade, a psychedelic rock trio that plays tonight on the festival’s outdoor stage at 2812 Hoyt Ave. Put on by the Everett Music Initiative, the festival is founded

Are we there yet? Stock up on Dramamine: The AAA auto club forecasts that 36.1 million people will travel 50 miles or more on Memorial Day weekend, the most holiday travel since 2005 (Page A10). Key findings of AAA’s survey include an 18-percent increase in travel since the low point

of the Great Recession in 2009, an average $3 jump in hotel room fees and a 7 percent increase in the number of times dads need to pull over so carsick kids barf in the tall roadside grass. They still make the best cigars: Cuba’s first-ever mobile email system quickly fell apart after it was introduced in March,

on the belief that Everett is responsible its fair share of new music coming out of the Northwest. Ryan Crowther and Steven Graham, the minds behind the Everett Music Initiative, opened a new venue called The Cannery in downtown Everett last month. It’s one of four stages

Music festival

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and took the impoverished island nation’s already shaky voice and textmessaging wireless systems with it (Page A8). The Castro regime blamed the technological problems on the embargo on sales of U.S. products to the Caribbean country, forcing Cuba to run its wireless system on a surplus Soviet knockoff of a 1986 IBM PC-XT.

Today the festival features 40 acts from noon to midnight, ending with Moondoggies at 11:30 p.m. at the Historic Everett Theatre. Find the schedule at thefishermansvillage.com, where you can also purchase tickets for $30.

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1792, a group of stockbrokers met under a tree on Wall Street; it was the beginning of the New York Stock Exchange (Today in History, A2). The Wall Street gang doesn’t meet under trees these days — although some of them do slither out from under rocks.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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Ryan Devlin sings at the Historic Everett Theatre on Friday afternoon. His band, Smokey Brights, was one of the first acts to play at the inaugural Fisherman’s Village Music Festival.

EVERETT — The Boeing Co. says it will fight a federal judge’s ruling that during contract talks it committed unfair labor practices, including illegally photographing unionized employees during marches at Boeing plants in Everett, Renton and Portland, Oregon. The union, the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA), represents engineers and technical workers. In a statement on its website, the union called the ruling a “searing indictment” of anti-union intimidation by Boeing. The U.S. National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday that Boeing security guards illegally photographed and videotaped SPEEA members during four marches from September through December 2012, when the union and company were negotiating a new contract. During the marches, some members carried placards with slogans such as “No nerds, no birds.” The ruling came from Administrative Law Judge Gerald Etchingham in Seattle. He found that Boeing also gave employees the impression that union activities would be watched and recorded. Boeing argued that it had acted out of concern for safety. For example, the company said the guards recorded employees because they were not wearing required safety goggles and stepped out of pedestrian walkways inside the plants. “The NLRB decision represents an unjustified and unprecedented intrusion into our right to protect the security of our

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