Everett Daily Herald, July 22, 2014

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Oso Mudslide

Items handled with care

Personal property recovered from the debris field is cleaned, identified and made available to families. By Rikki King Herald Writer

OSO — Hundreds of pieces of personal property have been recovered from the site of the March 22 mudslide near Oso. Books. Photos. Rings. Guns. Flags. Computers. Cars. Cameras. Wills. As many as 50 items are still being recovered each day as

workers search and sift through debris, said Gary Haakenson, the Snohomish County manager overseeing the slide recovery efforts. Officials have been working to clean and restore the items and return them to families in a careful and respectful way, Haakenson said. Some of the recovered items belonged to the 43 people who

were killed in the slide. One of the victims, Kris Regelbrugge, has not been found. The items are stored in a reunification center at an undisclosed location. Many of the recovered items were muddy but not seriously damaged, Haakenson said. The property is laid out on tables and shelving units. Families are given private time to look. Local experts have helped, including those specially trained in finding owner information inside computers, or in restoring

photos, Haakenson said. “There’s just a whole lot of work that’s going on behind the scenes,” he said. Searchers have kept a covered space set aside at the debris field where found property is taken and initially cleaned before being sent to the reunification center. Each family who has lost loved ones or property has been invited to the center, Haakenson said. “Some have chosen not to. It’s See property, back page, this section

County needs a money maven A finance director is required by county code, but the post has remained vacant for a year. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer

Historic plane added to Everett collection

the Bell X-1, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier. Aviation aficionados at Monday’s event marveled at the White Knight’s innovative design that enables it to carry a much heavier load than its thin, twin-boom frame suggests. They pointed out the plane’s stranger features — and there are plenty of them. It’s cockpit sits several feet off the ground, high enough to fit

EVERETT — For the past year, Snohomish County has gone without a position required by its own code: a finance director. Depending on whom you ask, that’s either a gross lack of oversight or a mere technicality. The County Council is set to take up the issue soon, as they approach what’s bound to be a challenging budget season. “I’m really worried about it,” County Councilman Ken Klein said. “It’s not just the legal aspect, but for good business practices.” County Executive John Lovick maintains that his administration has qualified managers in place to watch over county money, whether or not anyone’s wearing the finance director’s hat. The county code spells out the role of the finance department. It specifies that “the director shall be appointed by the executive subject to confirmation by the county council.” After Lovick took office last year, long-time county finance director Roger Neumaier resigned to take another job. Lovick’s administration didn’t formally appoint anyone to the top finance post. Instead, Lovick’s secondin-command, Mark Ericks, assumed some of Neumaier’s responsibilities, sharing them with two upper-level finance employees. “Unfortunately, due to budget constraints and a number of circumstances beyond our control, we were unable to fill that position as planned,” Lovick wrote last week in a letter to the council. Klein earlier this year raised concerns about the absence of a finance director, citing sections of the county’s code and charter. County prosecutors say he’s right — the job needs to be filled. To comply, Lovick’s office is proposing to name another top manager to the office as a temporary finance chief.

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Jet launched 1st private spaceship Herald Writer

EVERETT — Shutters clicked as the gangly white airplane buzzed over Paine Field. A few wows and goshes could be heard from the roughly 100 people gathered to see a piece of aviation history arrive at the Flying Heritage Collection. After a couple flybys, the plane, the White Knight, gently touched down and taxied to just outside the museum’s main hangar. The collection’s

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newest addition helped open the era of private and commercial space flight in 2004, when it launched the first manned privately owned space craft, SpaceShipOne. Both planes were built and developed by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, a collaboration between aerospace company Scaled Composites and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who also owns the Flying Heritage Collection. SpaceShipOne claimed the $10 million Ansari X Prize for

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making two manned flights in as many weeks reaching at least 62 miles above sea level, where outer space begins. Competing teams were not allowed to accept any government money. The White Knight carried SpaceShipOne under its belly to about 50,000 feet, where it launched the smaller, rocketpowered craft. By hitching a ride, the spacecraft needed to carry less fuel, making it easier for it to reach sub-orbital flight. Early aviation pioneers used a similar method for launching

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aging skin, or who just to dress up as John Boehner for Halloween. By design: Hoping to make products with the cool factor of Apple’s iPad and iPhone, Microsoft has doubled the number of designers at its Redmond headquarters over the past several years to about 1,400

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analyzes your sleep and adjusts the alarm time so you are awakened during a light phase of your sleep cycle. But until someone invents an app that prevents creepy work dreams, The Buzz will stick to our preferred sleep-inducer: The collected speeches of John Kerry.

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Pilot Peter Siebold climbs out of the White Knight after landing at Paine Field on Monday and parking in front of the Flying Heritage Collection.

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