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OSO MUDSLIDE
As it carves new path, Stilly is full of mysteries
Teacher leaves gift of nearly $1 million Carrol Walker, who taught at Snohomish High School for 32 years, directed that his money go to four hospitals. By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
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Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist Peter Verhey looks for steelhead redds in a creek that feeds the North Fork Stillaguamish River downstream from the Oso mudslide site on Thursday morning.
How the mudslide will affect fish and flooding is being closely studied By Chris Winters Herald Writer
OSO — It has been nearly two months since the hill above Steelhead Haven collapsed and filled the valley of the North Fork Stillaguamish River. The mudslide buried the river, Highway 530 and homes under 10 million cubic yards of dirt and debris. The rescue and recovery operation has been scaled
back, with a tally of 41 dead and two missing. The state Department of Transportation has started to uncover the highway. And the river has found its way through the debris. A few miles downstream from the slide, the clear waters of a creek swirl into the steelgray flow of the Stilly before being subsumed into the
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See STILLY, Page A8
SNOHOMISH — Friends describe Carrol Walker as an amazing character. Years later, he could still recall the day — Dec. 12, 1970 — that he first met student teacher Curtiss Johnson, who went on to become a Snohomish High School colleague. Walker could remember the names of all the students he had in his physics, trigonometry and advanced algebra classes over his 32-year career there, the year he taught them, and where they sat in his class, Johnson said. His sonorous voice and commanding classroom pres- Carrol Walker ence left him open to satiric imitation. One student, who walked to the front of the room on the premise of solving a math problem, launched into his Mr. Walker shtick — complete with his right hand at his cheek to underscore a key point. Some of the loudest laughter came from the back of the room, from Walker himself. His lifelong frugality came despite a family inheritance that left him wealthy by many people’s standards, Johnson said. See GIFT, Page A8
Coho fry swim through a creek that flows into the North Fork Stillaguamish River below the mudslide site. Biologists are trying to determine how the turbid water may affect salmon and steelhead.
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