The to-do list Festival and pow wow
He’s (almost) Elvis
The Stillaguamish Festival of the River and Pow Wow is today and Sunday at River Meadows Park, 20416 Jordan Road east of Arlington. Gates open at 10 a.m. Free.
See Elvis, as performed by Tracy Alan Moore, at 8 tonight at Historic Everett Theatre. Tickets are $12 to $25 and are available at the door.
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Have a taste The Taste of Edmonds is 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday at Civic Playground, Sixth and Bell Streets. You’ll find 35 vendors serving all types of food. There will also be live music, arts and crafts and rides for kids. $4; 12 and younger free.
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$100K bail in kidnapping The suspect is accused of taking a developmentally disabled girl whom he threatened to punch and forced to take pills. By Rikki King Herald Writer
EVERETT — A man accused of kidnapping a developmentally disabled Snohomish girl and forcing
her to stay overnight in his friend’s mobile home was ordered to be held Friday on $100,000. Albino Estrada Montano, 60, was booked into Snohomish County Jail on Thursday for investigation
of second-degree kidnapping, a felony. He and the girl were strangers, according to the arrest report. Investigators do not yet know if the victim was physically or sexually assaulted, said Shari Ireton, spokeswoman for the Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office. Elizabeth Harwood, 14, has autism and mental health issues,
and has the mental capacity of a 8-year-old, according to police. She went missing Wednesday after she left to ride her bike to a friend’s house. Harwood was found in good physical health but remains See BAIL, back page, this section
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Albino Estrada Montano, 60, appears on screen at a bail hearing Friday.
A church welcome to all Mine
seeks more hours Green Mountain in Granite Falls supplies the contractor building Boeing’s 777X wing facility in Everett. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
Barbara DeVol sings during services at Restoration Church on Camano Island on Aug. 3. The church, an offshoot of the Oso Community Chapel, is just getting started. The Rev. Gary Ray, who worked closely with those who lost loved ones in the March 22 Oso mudslide, says the church is meant to be a support center for the entire community. See Page A3. OSO MUDSLIDE
First public meeting set for Aug. 22 By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
the buzz
OSO — A dozen experts appointed to an independent commission will convene the first of 10 public meetings on
Aug. 22 to consider the emergency response and land-use decisions surrounding the catastrophic Oso mudslide. The first meeting will occur five months to the day after the disaster that killed 43 people.
Blame Bear Grylls Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: The Weather Channel is launching a new reality series, “Fat Guys in the Woods,” which drops obese men into the wild and has them fend for themselves, building shelter, starting a fire and hunting for food (Page D4). With every channel breaking into reality shows, we
suggest that C-SPAN give us “Congress in a Representative Democracy,” where candidates are dropped on to the campaign trail, stripped of their corporate donations and forced to listen to their constituents. While we’re at it — since it’s the latest twist on reality shows — make them do it naked. Bagged pipes: Customs agents at New Hampshire’s
The schedule was announced Friday. Panelists have backgrounds in geology, land-use planning, public safety and other relevant fields and plan to visit the site before the first meeting.
border with Canada seized two bagpipes because the instruments have ivory parts. Elephant ivory is barred from U.S. import (Page A9). Customs agents also said they were protecting America from instruments of mass annoyance. A cruller fate: Police in North Carolina arrested a man on a warrant who
They have a Dec. 15 deadline to produce a report for the state and Snohomish County. Their mission includes studying landuse planning in areas at high risk
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See SLIDE, Page A2
the day before had won a doughnut-eating contest during the police department’s National Night Out Against Crime. The man had eaten eight doughnuts in two minutes, beating out local cops (Page A9). As part of his Miranda warning, the man was reminded that “anything you eat can and will be used against you in a court of law.”
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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GRANITE FALLS — A mining company wants permission for some nighttime operations at a Mountain Loop Highway quarry to supply the construction of Boeing’s 777X wing facility in Everett. As is, Aggregates West is allowed to operate Green Mountain Mine from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. If Snohomish County grants the request, the company would be able to run trucks before 6 a.m. and after 6 p.m. through the end of the year. “We’re supplying the contractor on site doing the work for Boeing,” Aggregates general manager Chris Hatch said. “We were asked to provide some flexibility with regard to our operating hours and we’re accommodating them to the extent that we can.” The request is an early sign of the nearly two-year construction project about to get under way at the Boeing Co.’s Everett site. Plans call for breaking ground this fall on a 1.3-million-square-foot facility for fabricating 777X composite wings. Under special circumstances, Snohomish County’s hearing
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