Everett Daily Herald, May 31, 2014

Page 1

Prep state championships, C1 Glacier Peak softball advances to semifinals Three local track and field athletes win at state meet

SATURDAY, 05.31.2014

The to-do list Wedding tour

Tour Navy ships

Visit wedding venues in the Snohomish area and meet vendors on a tour from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Start at 506 Fourth St., Snohomish; $5 per person.

Naval Station Everett will open to the public from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. Ship tours, including the USS Nimitz, begin at 11 a.m. Government-issued ID is required, and don’t carry anything larger than a purse. For ship tours, kids must be 8 or older and everyone must be able to walk. Only handicapped parking on base. Route 6 bus from Everett Station runs every 15 minutes.

EVERETT, WASHINGTON

WWW.HERALDNET.COM

75¢ (HIGHER IN OUTLYING AREAS)

Summer lunch program saved

OSO MUDSLIDE

530 set to reopen White crosses for Molly Conley at noon

An online fundraising campaign quickly exceeded the $12,000 goal needed to feed children in Granite Falls. By Chris Winters Herald Writer

GRANITE FALLS — A program to provide kids in the

Granite Falls School District with hot lunches this summer has been saved thanks to an outpouring of support from the community.

The program had been funded by a federal reimbursement program through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This year, however, the program lost federal support due to a change in how community need is calculated. That need hasn’t gone away.

About 45 percent of the district’s 2,000 students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches. Last year the summer lunch program served an average of 55 students per day and as many as 120 students per day. See LUNCH, Page A7

1,400 of them mark anniversary of teen’s random shooting death

A moment of silence will mark the event, the first step in restoring the link between Arlington and Darrington. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

See MOLLY, Page A7

See 530, Page A7

ANNIE MULLIGAN / FOR THE HERALD

Erin O’Rourk, cousin of shooting victim Molly Conley, straightens one of 1,400 white crosses placed by family on the side of S. Lake Stevens Road on Friday morning. O’Rourk traveled with her family from Spokane to commemorate the anniversary of Molly’s death.

By Rikki King Herald Writer

LAKE STEVENS — The crosses, more than a thousand of them, represent grief, and they represent joy. The grief is that Molly Conley is gone. The joy is that of her life and her memory, carried by her family and friends. Conley was gunned down near Lake Stevens a year ago Sunday. Prosecutors say that Conley was the victim of a

Business . . . .A10 Classified . . . . B1 Comics . . . . . .D2

random drive-by shooting. The freshman from Seattle’s Bishop Blanchet High School was celebrating her 15th birthday, walking with girlfriends. On Friday afternoon, Conley’s loved ones gathered where she died, along S. Lake Stevens Road, overlooking Stitch Lake and Lake Stevens. They wore safety vests and used mallets to pound hundreds of crosses into the narrow grassy strip along the shoulder. Each cross bore a sticker with one of

Crossword . . .D2 Dear Abby. . . .D3 Good Life . . . .D1

Horoscope . . .D5 Lottery . . . . . .A2 Obituaries. . . .A7

three words describing Molly: kind, true, brave. People who love Molly came up with the idea of placing the crosses. As word spread through her school, boxes of them just showed up at the home of her father, John Conley, he said. “For a lot of Christians, but Roman Catholics in particular, the bare white cross is a sign of resurrection and a sign of everlasting life,” John Conley said. Cars slowed as they passed Friday.

Opinion. . . . .A13 Sports . . . . . . . C1 TV . . . . . . . . . .D4

THE BUZZ: No democracy in these golden arches. Page A2

Breezy 67/47, C8

DAILY

“We all have each other in us. We’re all a part of each other. We’re all connected,” he said. “When we lose someone like we lost Molly, we end up with so much of that person in us.” Molly’s siblings are determined to honor her, John Conley said. They are thriving, but it’s not easy. Her classmates also carry her memory. “She’s part of them. She shines

OSO — A one-lane stretch of Highway 530, which has been closed since the deadly March mudslide, is to reopen to traffic at noon today with hopes that the vital link between Arlington and Darrington can be completely rebuilt by this fall. On Friday, the state Department of Transportation awarded a $20.57 million contract to Guy F. Atkinson Construction to rebuild a portion of Highway 530 through the slide area. When finished, the new stretch will be elevated to deal with an increased flood risk and topographic changes to the North Fork Stillaguamish River caused by the landslide, officials said. Atkinson, a Colorado-based firm, worked on the widening of I-405 south of Bellevue. It was one of four bidders for the Highway 530 contract. Federal Highway Administration emergency-relief funds will cover the entire cost of the project, which state officials hope will be mostly done by early October. When the road reopens today, it will be a single lane and a pilot car will lead vehicles in each direction, as is done now on the parallel Seattle City Light access road that has served as a temporary route. No schedule will be set. Rather, flaggers will coordinate based on the back-ups. The speed limit will be 25 mph and there will be no restrictions for height and size of vehicles, officials said. Three miles of the highway have been closed since the March 22 mudslide that killed 43 people.

6

42963 33333

VOL. 114, NO. 117 © 2014 THE DAILY HERALD CO.

PAINTING + POTENTIAL Real Difference. Right Now. Free Es�mates, 2-Year wri�en warranty, Fully Insured, BBB A+ Ra�ng, Lead Cer�fied, Many References Available. Schedule your FREE Es�mate today! 1052518

www.collegepro.com 1-800-32-PAINT

WA Lic. # COLLEPP080K8

9


Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.