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K-C set to fight city over mill site
OSO MUDSLIDE
Unforgettable Kris
Last of 43 victims to be found lived life on her own terms
By Dan Catchpole
By Eric Stevick
Herald Writer
Herald Writer
OSO — Kris Regelbrugge was the missing woman. For weeks, the 43rd and last of the Oso mudslide victims became the symbol of unfinished business, the rallying cry to press on. To her family, she was so much more than the boilerplate sentence in follow-up news reports of the worst natural disaster in Snohomish County history. She was the middle of three children, the high-octane girl who once picked her mom a bouquet of poison oak that left her hands and face severely swollen. By the sixth grade, she dropped her given name of Molly and announced to her family that she would be “Kris,” a shortened version of her middle name. Her parents say she lived life on her own terms. Her future husband would learn that, too, on the day they met. She turned down John Regelbrugge when he asked her to dance at a Black Angus steak house. She made him wait the entire night before taking him up on his offer. They would prove a worthy match over the next quarter century: both had trouble sitting still. An enlisted man who became an officer, Navy Cmdr. John Regelbrugge III completed 19 deployments before he died in the March 22 mudslide. Kris raised their children while he was at sea. A week after the slide, her family already was missing her mischief. She’d been so adept at pulling pranks her parents and sister would mark their calendars and screen their calls each April Fools Day. Kris had a tattoo of the sun on See KRIS, back page, this section
Officials want the dust controlled, K-C says there is no dust. EVERETT — Kimberly-Clark Corp. says it is ready to fight the city in a legal dispute over the company’s former mill site on the waterfront. Everett filed a lawsuit against the company Monday in Snohomish County Superior Court. The city claims that a permit issued to Kimberly-Clark in 2012 required it to cover the site with topsoil and plant grass after demolition. The company later issued a statement saying that it “believes it has acted appropriately and complied with all permit requirements in its efforts to safely demolish and remediate the site so it can be effectively marketed and redeveloped in order to bring jobs back to Everett.” The city and the company have been arguing about covering the site with topsoil since the permit was issued. Everett officials say it will keep dust out of nearby neighborhoods. Kimberly-Clark disagrees. “The current covering is superior to soil and grass seed. It is stable, permeable and is performing very well in controlling erosion and sediment run-off. In addition, since the demolition is complete there is no dust emanating from the site,” the company said in its statement. Requiring topsoil and grass will only make it harder to sell, according to the company. The company’s statement ended on a defiant note. “As the property owner, we are prepared to defend ourselves.” Dan Catchpole: 425-339-3454; dcatchpole@heraldnet.com; Twitter: @dcatchpole.
PHOTO COURTESY OF CHARLOTTE MCCALISTER
Kris and John Regelbrugge in a family photo from August 2012. The yellow ribbon was for their son who was serving in Afghanistan at the time.
Update: Courthouse construction is on track By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
EVERETT — Snohomish County’s future courthouse won’t go over budget and construction should keep close to its original two-year schedule, architects assured county leaders Tuesday. The update, during a council
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meeting, came less than a month after the county switched the main architect on the project. The change stemmed largely from fear that courthouse construction would exceed a $162 million price tag that already has created sticker shock. “At its core, we have the makings of a very sound civic building,” said Doug Kleppin, a vice president with Heery International, the firm that took over the design process. Based in Atlanta, Heery has a long presence in Seattle. The
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company has helped design more than 70 courthouses. Much work remains in Snohomish County before they hope to break ground, some time next spring, Kleppin said. Once construction begins, it’s expected to last about 22 months. Designs presented Tuesday show a building with nine floors, including the basement. The metal and glass exterior would encompass 250,000 square feet of floor space. That’s more than double the 116,121 square feet in the current courthouse, excluding
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space in the adjoining Mission building. Designs for the new structure show a main entrance near the current site of Matthew Parsons Park, a memorial at the corner of Rockefeller Avenue and Wall Street named after a child homicide victim. The new building’s main floor would be dedicated to customer service desks, including court clerks. The building would house 18 courtrooms and a law library, plus office space for county deputy prosecuting attorneys and
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court administrators. There’s no space for the sheriff’s office administration, which would move either to the county’s Robert Drewel Building or the Mission building. The presiding judge of Snohomish County Superior Court, Michael Downes, said the new courthouse includes only features that are necessary to serve the community well into the future. “This is for the public,” Downes See COURTHOUSE, back page, this section
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Architects are confident the project will meet its budget and schedule.
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