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Welcome aboard the Nimitz
Tourney time
Tour the supercarrier and two other Navy ships at Naval Station Everett Community Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Kids must be at least 8, and everyone needs valid government-issued photo ID to get on the base.
Snohomish boys are in the 4A soccer semifinals Friday, and state champions for all spring prep sports will be determined by Saturday.
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Snohomish County residents honor Americans who died while serving our country. The American Legion sponsors a parade beginning at 10 a.m. on Olympia Avenue in downtown Arlington. In Edmonds, ceremonies pay tribute to the 70th anniversary of D-Day. For the complete list of local Memorial Day events, see Page A3.
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Media, Mill Creek government mix Mayor Pam Pruitt’s role as a reporter for the Mill Creek View has been a concern of the City Council since the 2013 election. By Amy Nile
as a reporter. Her day-job boss, a Snohomish County councilman, writes guest columns for the same paper. A city councilman who is a candidate for the Legislature is paid by the paper to publish his opinions. The city
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MILL CREEK — City Hall is tangled up with a newspaper here. The mayor works part-time
manager, however, had to pay the paper to get his published. The public footed part of the bill for a rhetorical battle between the city manager and people running for elected office. It played out last year in the pages of the bimonthly Mill Creek View, which until recently was the only newspaper focusing on the city. This co-mingling of government and media has been an
elephant in the City Council’s chambers since the 2013 election. Mayor Pam Pruitt covers City Hall as a reporter at the Mill Creek View. She is sometimes called the city editor. She said that’s just a title the paper’s owner gave her to make up for her small paychecks. Unlike an editor, she said, she has no say in what goes into the paper. She sometimes disagrees with its content.
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This Memorial Day means more Family gatherings were ever so special for Kris and John Regelbrugge
Pruitt reports on city news, even when she is involved in the story as mayor. She said she started writing for the paper around 2010. When she launched her campaign for City Council, she said, she stopped writing editorials and opinion pieces in the spirit of fairness. She continued writing her articles but insists it is See MIX, Page A6
Lottery system for food program Checks will again be available to low-income seniors to use at farmers markets, and it’s hoped random selection will avoid long lines. By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer
trips, drinking sangria and working around the house. “My parents were not from money. They were so proud of their home. It was the place where they would grow old together,” she said. “But if my dad had known there was an earlier slide across the river in 2006, I don’t think he would have bought the house.” On the morning of the slide, the couple planned to drive to the Bremerton area, where
EVERETT — A program that provides low-income seniors with $40 checks to spend at farmers markets is so popular that this year’s recipients will be picked by a lottery system. The good news is that Senior Services of Snohomish County has funding to provide checks to about 1,708 seniors this summer. That’s about 250 more people than the number helped by the program last year, said Martha Peppones, nutrition and health services director for Senior Services of Snohomish County. In this and previous market seasons, the downside is that demand is higher than available funding. Not everyone qualified due to modest income will get the money. The Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program is paid for by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and money the Legislature appropriates annually from the state general fund. Random selection is being tried this year because previously some older people waited in long lines at farmers markets or at the Senior Services office for the checks — and were sometimes frustrated that they didn’t
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beginning to live through the calendar’s special days after her parents died in the March 22 mudslide that obliterated their Steelhead Haven neighborhood, off Highway 530 east of Oso, and caused the deaths of 41 other people. She graduated from Darrington High School in 2013, loved celebrating any event with her parents, even “Taco Tuesdays.” The last Regelbrugge family gathering was March 17, St. Patrick’s Day. Corned beef, cabbage
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and Irish ales were on the menu. Laughing around the fire pit was the activity. John and Kris Regelbrugge loved life, Regelbrugge said. They were the sort of folks who used any excuse to invite people over for supper. They volunteered at school. They helped their neighbors. They loved to dance to 1980s rock and roll. They wrote love letters to each other, always signed SWAK — sealed with a kiss or KOTW — kisses on the wind. They loved their motorcycle
I ♥ television Yes, chef: Tonight on Fox, Gordon Ramsay fans can catch the season premiere of “MasterChef” (This Week’s Best Bets, Page B4). True fact: If someone gathered up all the food prepared on all the countless Gordon Ramsay TV shows, food insecurity could be Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B5
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ended in a small developing nation — although the undercooked chicken served up by the more hapless contestants on “Hell’s Kitchen” would create a public health crisis. Forward: Author Ken Kesey’s son is organizing a 50th anniversary recreation of the Merry Pranksters’
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psychedelic bus ride across America, and invites folks to ride along, at $200 a head (Page A2). Riding with a bunch of people listening to the Grateful Dead? One can do that for $2 on a city bus in most any college town. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1960, TV . . . . . . . . . . B4 Your Photos . . B1
the U.S. accused the Soviets of hiding a microphone inside a wood carving that had been presented to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (Today in History, Page A2). The Soviets didn’t hear any state secrets, but were treated to a steady stream of comments like “What is that? It’s ghastly.”
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John Regelbrugge died in the March 22 Oso mudslide, and his wife, Kris, is missing. John served 32 years in the Navy.
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