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Housing help for families Those who lost their homes in the March 22 disaster can apply for up to $30,000 to cover as long as 24 months.
Family Resource Project. The fund provides up to $30,000 per family for up to 24 months. Foundation President Barbara Tolbert said that as families and the region recover from the disaster, they appear to be focusing more on long-term housing. “This is a need that is not being met elsewhere,” Tolbert said.
What the board has heard, she added, is that the amount of money coming from the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been less than what some people expected, and whether the county will buy
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Voters won’t receive How to tame wayward creek Lynnwood is looking at options to fix chronic winter flooding refund By Chris Winters Herald Writer
ARLINGTON — Cascade Valley Hospital Foundation has set aside $670,000 that will be
used to help victims who lost homes in the Oso landslide or the subsequent flooding. The money will be distributed to individuals and families who apply through the Arlington
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Mike Hope collected his salary and cast votes for 11 months after he registered to vote in Ohio and became ineligible for office here.
seen success, but the problems persist. The project has proven a delicate balance between protecting an important natural resource and being realistic and responsive to the needs of people. Many of the homes and
OLYMPIA — Mike Hope became ineligible to serve in the Legislature on Aug. 19, 2013, when he signed a voter registration card in Mentor, Ohio. But 11 months passed before anyone found out and Hope quit, a period during which the Republican representative from Snohomish County cast 503 votes and collected monthly installments of his $42,106-a-year salary. Retaking any of those votes is not going to happen because Hope’s choice didn’t make the difference in any of the outcomes. But what about the taxpayer dollars paid to the former Seattle cop for salary, per-diem and other job-related expenses when, as it turns out, he shouldn’t have been in office? Looks like he won’t have to repay a dime. “At this stage, I don’t see we have any recourse to recoup those expenses,” said Deputy Chief Clerk Bernard Dean of the state House of Representatives. “I don’t think we can take any official action at this point.” Hope resigned July 24. Not long after, Tim Sekerak, counsel for the state House, began asking the attorney general, the state elections director and the Snohomish County auditor about the options, and their answers made clear there aren’t any.
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LYNNWOOD — Threaded through the suburbs of Lynnwood, Scriber Creek runs past auto dealerships, strip malls and quiet, tucked-away neighborhoods. It’s cool and shady along the burbling stream with stretches
of water the color of weathered copper. Spiders spin glistening webs and twigs snap underfoot. Traffic, almost forgotten, thrums nearby. In the summer, the urban creek runs passive and low, compliant with humans’ efforts over time to tame and redirect its flow. It now follows the unnatural crooks and bends of property
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lines, culverts and roadways. In the winter, though, the creek surges. It rips at its banks, it overtakes roads and threatens homes and businesses. For years now, city public works staff have been trying to address the flooding, an effort complicated by private property rights and environmental regulation. Some projects have
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Out of an abundance of caution, however, many of the wealthy enclave’s fathers were continuing to boil their ice cubes for their bourbon.
Can’t be too careful: Health authorities have lifted their nearly week-long boil-water advisory for Mercer Island because of E coli. contamination (Page B1).
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demanded that wolves be relocated to Western Washington, specifically to Olympia (Page B1). The wildlife officials were sympathetic, but noted that the wolves weren’t likely to remain in Olympia where they would have to compete for prey with the capital’s native packs of lawyers.
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Jared Bond, an environmental and surface water supervisor with the city of Lynnwood, steps across Scriber Creek near Cedar Valley Community School after plucking a piece of styrofoam from the stream on Oct. 2.
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