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State officials are headed to the Farnborough Air Show this week to promote the state aerospace industry.
Registered voters can mail their primary election ballots between Friday and Aug. 5.
The 38th annual Darrington Bluegrass Festival is to be held Friday through Sunday.
Seattle Mariners Robinson Cano, Felix Hernandez, Kyle Seager and Fernando Rodney are among the American League players for Tuesday’s Major League Baseball 85th All-Star Game.
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Letting kids be kids Camp Killoqua gives classic summer experience to Oso children
Pastors sue city over use of land John and Jane Mack, who run a program for sex offenders, claim Marysville is trying to force them out of town. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
negotiations with BNSF Railway to buy service time on the tracks. So Mukilteo opened with one platform, Reason said. “When the south platform is fully functional and opens in early 2015, all Sounder stations will use two tracks and two platforms,” she said.
MARYSVILLE — A pair of pastors who operate a series of halfway houses for sex offenders and other released inmates have sued the city of Marysville over its attempts to enforce land use codes against them. John and Jane Mack of Arlington run Holy Ghost Revival Ministries, which provides ministry and 12-step residential programs for sex offenders and other men with criminal backgrounds in several “Mack Houses” in Snohomish County. The Macks and Greg Stewart, the landlord for one of the properties, are taking the city to court over code enforcement actions related to two of the properties: one located east of downtown in a suburban residential neighborhood and one up north in a mixed commercial and light industrial neighborhood. Marysville has ordered the Macks to cease using the 61st Street property for storage and that residents not be housed at the Smokey Point Boulevard location. The Macks have nine properties, four of them in Marysville. Another Mack house on State Avenue was the subject of a contentious City Council meeting in 2012 when neighbors found out that three sex offenders had moved in. The suit, filed July 2 in Snohomish County Superior Court, is an appeal of two June 11 rulings by the city’s hearing examiner under the state Land Use Petition Act, in which the superior court acts as an appellate court for those land use decisions. A judge could either uphold one or both of the rulings, or find that the hearing examiner committed an error in the original ruling and send one or both the
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By Kari Bray Herald Writer
STANWOOD — It’s classic summer fun. It’s also a relaxing distraction. There are no bumpy detours or scarred hillsides or tributes of ribbons and flowers. Last week, about 22 children and teenagers from Oso and
Darrington just got to be kids. Jalen Maltos, 13, showed off a homemade superhero mask Thursday morning. He’d been enjoying his day at summer camp. “It’s fun because you get to go do a lot of things and time goes by slowly because I think you remember everything more,” he said.
Camp Killoqua, operated by Camp Fire USA, is offering free summer camps to children affected by the March 22 Oso mudslide. The camps would normally cost $500 or more. Organizations donated $61,515 for about 120 camp sessions this summer and in 2015. Donors include Friends of Camp Fire, United Way of
Snohomish County, Cascade Valley Hospital Foundation and New York Life Insurance Company. So far, 98 children from kindergarten to 12th grade have registered for the free camps, Camp Killoqua Director Carol See KILLOQUA, back page, this section
Sounder station getting second platform The project at Mukilteo station also includes a pedestrian bridge connecting the two platforms. Herald Writer
MUKILTEO — An $11 million project to add a second platform at Mukilteo’s Sounder station is now about half complete, with the new platform expected to
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commuter rail and light rail services. Mukilteo’s north platform was opened in 2008. “Now we’re going back to finish our promise and complete the entire station,” said Kimberly Reason, a spokeswoman for Sound Transit. “We weren’t able to complete the entire station in 2008 when we launched service,” she said. The agency had long
Clock’s ticking Enhanced interrogation: Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) faces a momentous decision on tonight’s actionpacked finale of “24: Live Another Day” (Best Bets on TV, Page B4). Interrogating a suspect with critical information, Bauer must choose from a Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B7
menu of torture options: the Viet Cong (fingernails pulled out with pliers), the Action Movie Hero (gunshot to the knee), or the Dick Cheney (waterboarding). Not redeemed: Brazil has completed repairs to the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro (Page A7).
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Now the nation faces a much more difficult repair job: its national esteem after Brazil’s poor showing in the World Cup. Will someone please think of the children: Advising the mother of a sassy 5-yearold, child psychologist John Rosemond observes that kids these days mimic inapproTV . . . . . . . . . . B4 Your Photos . . B1
priate behavior they see on TV sitcoms, and shouldn’t be allowed to watch anything except the Discovery and History channels (Living With Children, Page B2). Because well-balanced children need a steady diet of“Pawn Stars” on History and “Naked and Afraid” on Discovery.
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Sitting in the center, Trent Hebert, 9, a home school kid from the Oso area, visits with boys from other towns at Camp Killoqua while camp leaders prepare to cook a special lunch outdoors. Sean Weary, 7, far left, and Jeremiah Tillequots, 6, (other side of log, right) are also from the OsoDarrington region impacted by the catastrophic mudslide. The highly regarded camp represents a friendly, neutral site with lots of activities as well as sit-on-a-log-and-talk time.
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