Everett Daily Herald, August 11, 2014

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The top U.S. trade official will tour Boeing’s Everett factory and speak in Seattle Tuesday.

The team faces the Chargers on Friday for its first preseason game at home.

Pacific Little League begins World Series play Thursday against Great Lakes champion Illinois.

Watch artists in action Saturday and Sunday at the Fresh Paint festival at the Everett marina.

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OSO MUDSLIDE

Where you can remember victims A dedication for a columbarium at the Darrington Cemetery is set for Saturday, and is open to the public. By Kari Bray Herald Writer

DARRINGTON — A columbarium dedicated to the 43 victims of the Oso mudslide is set to

be unveiled Saturday at the Darrington Cemetery. A dedication ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. and is open to the public. The Darrington Cemetery is located along

Highway 530 on the west edge of the town. The columbarium is a niched wall where families of the victims can choose to inter their loved ones’ ashes. Each segment of the wall has space for two urns. Black granite plaques list the names of those who died in the March 22 disaster on one side

of the columbarium, and information about the Darrington Cemetery on the other. Monroe’s Koppenberg Enterprises partnered with eight other businesses and the town of Darrington to create and install the columbarium. It was donated shortly after the mudslide, but volunteers needed time to make

‘Beautiful qualities’ captured Artists want their work to help people smile after the Oso mudslide

plans and get the wall set up in the cemetery, said Rosetta Willis, a Darrington resident and member of the town’s cemetery board. The names on the plaques are familiar to Willis. She knew Alan Bejvl, Steve Neal and Linda See MEMORIAL, back page, this section

City has plans for 20 acres near river The city of Snohomish wants to turn farmland into a recreation area, and is willing to pay $500,000 for land previously valued at $150,000. By Amy Nile Herald Writer

that the region can be defined by something more than tragedy. Nine artists from the pastel society drove through the giant cavity straddling Highway 530 where a Steelhead Haven neighborhood was destroyed. They sought out the mountains, forests and rivers, boulders, pastures and tree-lined trails that

SNOHOMISH — The city has big plans to turn some riverfront farmland here into a public recreation space. And it’s willing to pay the price for it. City officials are working out a deal to spend $500,000 in county grant money to buy 20 acres along the Snohomish River next to downtown. The offer has raised questions, because the state previously valued the land at about $150,000. That was before the city did another appraisal this year that put the property’s worth at $500,000 — the same amount sellers want for it. The city plans to buy the land with grant money it received last year from the Snohomish County Conservation Futures program. It is funded with property taxes. Snohomish officials want it for a new boat launch and envision connecting the site with several area trails. City Manager Larry Bauman said Snohomish has been negotiating the terms of the sale with the landowners, Ed and Edith Stocker, for the past couple of months. “We expected it to be done by now,” he said.

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OSO — For a time after the Oso mudslide that killed 43 people in March, Jude Galbraith wondered if she should cancel a summer gathering of regional artists in the Stillaguamish Valley. There had been so much heartache along the stretch of highway between Arlington

and Darrington. After consulting with other artists from the Northwest Pastel Society, she realized the show should go on. And, for parts of five days ending Sunday afternoon, it did just that. “We have had so much sadness with the slide,” said Galbraith of Darrington. “I just wanted to bring something back

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to the community that makes us smile. The idea is to let people know about all the beautiful qualities of this area.” It was a BYOF (Bring Your Own Frame) event with the artists’ best works made part of an exhibition at the entrance to the Rhodes River Ranch restaurant in Oso. In a sense, it was another tiny step toward renewal, a reminder

All up in his Grylls Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Hollywood hunk Channing Tatum is released into the woods in tonight’s episode of “Running Wild With Bear Grylls.” What savage wilderness must Tatum survive? Yosemite National Park (Page B4). Crossword . . . B2 Dear Abby. . . . B3

Using only their wits, a compact mirror — Tatum’s — and a spork, the pair must start a fire for a ranger talk, whittle a marshmallow stick and fashion a shelter from an REI four-man tent. Room with “The View”: The departures of Sherri Shepherd and Jenny McCarthy from the daytime

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talk show, “The View,” leave Whoopi Goldberg as the only returning co-host (Page B4). Eager to return to TV since he left “The Tonight Show” in February, Jay Leno offered to join the panel and — requested or not — would wear a dress. Is there a part for Adele Dazeem? A publisher of Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . .A8

children’s books says that the adventures of Anna and Elsa from Disney’s hit movie “Frozen” will continue with at least two more books in January (Page B4). Which means Disney should have a sequel out about the time that “Let It Go” stops playing on a loop inside the heads of parents.

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Claire “Pinky” Ridlon (left), of Woodinville, and Jude Galbraith, of Darrington, paint Thursday morning along the North Fork Stillaguamish River in Oso.

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