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Key stats in Hawks loss: Heat, time of possession,
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Everett opens WHL regular-season play Saturday at Seattle. The Tips first home game is Oct. 3.
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FALL FESTIVALS: With myriad
Octoberfests around the corner, you can get started early as local communities break out the beer, brats and harvest’s best.
ISIS: Congress turns to terrorism and the
threat from Islamic militants this week with hearings and debate in several committees.
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Arrests in church thefts
Port specialty: Really big cargo
Police believe 2 men behind at least 7 burglaries in the county
Unlike ports in Seattle and Tacoma, the Port of Everett craves huge objects that won’t fit in a container. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
decades-old silver chalice used to take communion during the Lord’s Supper. “It was a lot to handle for people,” Kyllo said. The congregation went on with services that Sunday and joined each other in fellowship at a picnic afterward. They prayed for the thieves.
EVERETT — Consistency can be hard to come by on the Port of Everett’s waterfront. It’s the nature of the port’s niche — handling cargo too big or too heavy to fit in a container. That’s called break-bulk cargo. It includes things like big tractors and massive electrical transformers. A 291-ton transformer recently moved through the port en route to the Cherry Point refinery, said Walter Seidl, the port’s marketing director. “You don’t have regularly scheduled ships moving 291-ton transformers. They only need one,” he said. As marketing director at the Port of Everett, Seidl’s job is to make sure the seaport’s piers and terminals are as busy as possible. Tacoma and Seattle have the state’s busiest ports. They mostly handle standardized containers, which dominate marine shipping. Containers are efficient in high volume, but they don’t work for everybody. Everett’s focus on the business of moving big, heavy things requires a soft touch. The port has to maintain a reputation for taking care of customer cargo, Seidl said.
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Pastor Terry Kyllo serves Communion to church attendant David Payea while Payea’s wife, Janet, looks on during Sunday’s morning service at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Marysville. Silverware, including the plate held by Kyllo, were among other items stolen from the church July 31 and Aug. 4, but later recovered by detectives.
By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
MARYSVILLE — The first time the thieves broke into St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Marysville they mainly grabbed expensive musical equipment. The congregation was told not to expect to see their property again. It would be difficult to track down. The equipment
likely was going to be sold to make some quick cash, a means to pay for a drug addiction. The parishioners looked on the bright side. No one was hurt, the equipment could be replaced and the thieves had left behind the more meaningful items used in worship. Three days later church members filed in for Sunday services. The thieves had been back.
“This time they cleared out everything,” Pastor Terry Kyllo said. They took computer equipment. They swiped a picture of Jesus and stole groceries collected for the local food banks. Even more heart-wrenching was the theft of a brass candle holder used in services to represent the light of Christ in the world. Also gone was the church’s
County moves forward on salmon habitat project By Chris Winters Herald Writer
the buzz
EVERETT — The Snohomish County Council last week signed off on an agreement that brings it
closer to creating salmon habitat on Smith Island. The county plans to create a 350-acre wetland at the mouth of the Snohomish River. The $25 million project involves
‘Scuse me, I burped Presenting Ms. Springfield, Barney Gumble: Supermodel and business mogul Kathy Ireland showed off a peculiar talent at a Miss America pageant preliminary event earlier this week — the ability to belch on command (Page B4). Pageant officials weren’t
so impressed, saying Ireland would never pass muster in the talent competition — unless, of course, she were able to perform “Memories (Theme From ‘Cats’)” entirely in burps. As seen on TV: Even with their manufactured conflict and contrived story lines, business-
removing dikes and allowing the acreage to flood, turning it back into a saltwater estuary. The plan has drawn opposition from businesses that share the island. They are concerned about effects on their properties from construction or saltwater flooding. Those concerns range from construction traffic at Dagmar’s
themed reality shows like “Shark Tank” contain some useful lessons for small business owners, columnist Pat Sisneros writes (Page A8). For example, the various shows starring Donald Trump can help business people pick up some tips for dealing with monstrously narcissistic creeps.
Marina, sedimentation affecting Buse Timber’s ability to float logs in the river, and saltwater degrading the soil at Hima Nursery. The three firms, which comprise Diking Improvement District 5, had been negotiating the agreement with the county to clear the way for the project in exchange for assurances that it
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1776, British forces marched into New York City during the Revolutionary War (Today in History, Page B4). The next invasion of the Big Apple wouldn’t take place until the 1990s, when hipsters began their conquest of Brooklyn.
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won’t affect their businesses. The Snohomish County Farm Bureau plans to continue to challenge the project. Wednesday’s decision followed a continuation of public comments from the previous week. Ed Husmann, president of See PROJECT, Page A5
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Firms that share Smith Island are opposed to the plan to create a 350-acre wetland at the mouth of the Snohomish.
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