Everett Daily Herald, June 30, 2014

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This week’s watchwords Jetty

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Pack a picnic, a blanket and beach toys: Everett’s Jetty Island opens for the season Saturday.

Friday is Independence Day. See Page A3 for a schedule of July 4 celebrations around the county.

The U.S. men’s soccer team faces Belgium at 1 p.m. Tuesday in the knockout round of the World Cup.

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Vying for mental health business The demand for psychiatric services is there, and companies are “fighting for market share.” By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer

No one disputes the need for more psychiatric beds in Snohomish County.

There’s only one place offering adult, in-patient psychiatric services to serve the county’s 745,913 people: a 23-bed unit at Swedish/ Edmonds hospital. Most people who need in-patient psychiatric

care have to leave the county to get it. That acute lack of psychiatric services has sparked intense competition among three forprofit companies seeking to enter the market. They are awaiting state approval for new in-patient mental health care facilities costing millions of dollars.

There are more applications by organizations seeking to open psychiatric units in Snohomish County than anywhere else in the state, said Janis Sigman, a manager for the state Department of Health. The competition, spurred in part by additional money for mental health services through

Obamacare, has led to legal challenges among the companies over which ultimately get to open the new units. “They’re fighting for market share,” said Stark, Snohomish County’s human services director. “If you look statewide ... See MENTAL, Page A6

Retail pot outlets could face shortages Shops could open as early as July 8, but there’s only one lab certified to test marijuana headed to store shelves. By Gene Johnson Associated Press

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Everett Police Chief Dan Templeman stands in the lobby of the Everett Police Department headquarters Thursday, a day after he was sworn in to replace former Chief Kathy Atwood.

Rising through the ranks Dan Templeman, Everett’s new police chief, ‘an amazing worker’ EVERETT — There’s a wistfulness in Dan Templeman’s voice when he thinks back to 1992. That was the spring he graduated from college in criminology, the summer he worked at a city golf course and the fall he hired on with the Everett

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and worked with neighborhood leaders on hot spots and chronic nuisances. “If I ended up on patrol tomorrow, I would love it,” he said. That’s not going to happen. Templeman, 44, has taken the reins as chief of the department and is now responsible for a $31.8 million annual budget. He was sworn in last week to oversee 248 employees, including

Fill ‘er’ up Thank you, come again: A gas station designed in 1927 by Frank Lloyd Wright has finally been built in Buffalo, New York (Page A2). The stylish station sports a second-floor observation room, two fireplaces and a hand-tooled copper canopy over the hot dog warmer. Crossword . . . B2 Dear Abby. . . . B3

201 uniformed officers. His annual salary is $149,292. Templeman replaced Kathy Atwood, who retired as chief June 19. He became the 37th chief in the city’s 111-year history. “I had hoped all along he would be my successor and was thrilled that the mayor supported that and he

Blast off: NASA plans to launch a satellite Tuesday that will study carbon dioxide, the main driver of climate change (Page A7). The launch comes five years after an earlier attempt fizzled and fell into the ocean. Taking no chances this time, the space agency will use a rocket powered by the

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superheated air emitted by Al Gore whenever climate change deniers cause him to sigh heavily. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1908, an asteroid exploded above remote Siberia, devastating 800 square miles (Today in History, Page A2). The massive blast might Sports . . . . . . . C1 TV . . . . . . . . . . B4

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have taken place over a populated area were it not for Russian President Vladimir Putin, who heroically stripped off his shirt, traveled to 1908 in Russia’s top-secret time machine (which he personally invented), and deflected the object’s path with a series of well-placed nuclear detonations.

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Police Department. His first assignment was on patrol, the graveyard shift in the Riverside neighborhood. Back then, he didn’t know who was on the City Council. His beat stretched from Broadway to the Snohomish River north of Pacific Avenue. It was an exciting place. The rookie grew close to his fellow officers, took a variety of calls

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By Eric Stevick and Rikki King

SEATTLE — Randy Oliver has a pressing question as legal marijuana sales are about to begin in Washington state: Where’s all the weed? Oliver is the chief scientist at Analytical 360 in Yakima, the only lab that has been certified to test the heavily taxed marijuana that will wind up on store shelves next month. So far, just two licensed growers have turned in samples for testing, with another due to turn in a small batch next week, he told The Associated Press on Saturday. “There’s such a small stream of samples coming through,” he said. “There’s going to be some long lines and some high prices.” The state’s Liquor Control Board has been warning of shortages when the first stores open. The board plans to issue the first 15 to 20 retail licenses July 7, with shops allowed to open the next day if they’re ready. It’s not clear how many that will be. Board staff said at a meeting last week that only one store in Seattle is ready for its final inspection. Only 79 of the more than 2,600 people who applied for marijuana growing licenses last fall have been approved, and many of them aren’t ready to harvest. “Will there be shortages?” Randy Simmons, the board’s legal-pot project manager, said in a recent AP interview. “The answer to that is yes.”

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