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Structured recess aims to reduce bullying, increase learning
The forensic scientist, the last witness to testify for the prosecution in the Danny Ross Giles trial, reviewed evidence from the killing. By Scott North Herald Writer
decided to tailor a program for the Edmonds School District. “We know that recess can be chaotic,” Hershey said. “We know a lot of discipline problems happen at recess.” That means teachers and office staff have to serve as mediators for behavior problems and deal with injuries on the playground. Teachers often spend 15
EVERETT — A state forensic scientist explained Tuesday how blood spattered on Patti Berry’s car and clothing likely tells the story of her final moments more than 19 years ago. Kristopher Kern, who manages the Washington State Patrol crime scene response team, was the final witness called by Snohomish County prosecutors in the first-degree murder trial of Danny Ross Giles. An expert on blood stains, crime scene analysis and reconstruction, he talked about the inferences that can be reached from examining evidence gathered after the 1995 killing. Jurors already have heard how Berry, 26, likely encountered her killer after finishing her shift dancing at a nude nightclub early on July 31, 1995. The left front tire on Berry’s 1985 Honda was leaking. She left the club’s lot looking for an air pump. Her blood-stained vehicle was
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Playground supervisor Charlie Helean mingles with children, occasionally interceding before conflicts fully develop, at Brier Elementary School in the Edmonds School District.
By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
BRIER — Sure, we all have memories of how much fun recess can be — jumping rope, basketball, four square. But playgrounds also can be the breeding grounds for conflict, bullying and trash talk, problems that educators say occupy too much of their time. Next month, six elementary
schools in the Edmonds School District will launch a program aimed at getting kids to be more active at recess, which, they believe, also will reduce bullying and increase kids’ readiness to learn. “We know recess is kind of this untapped potential,” said Jennifer Hershey, a school district fitness coordinator. “We know that kids who are healthier and fitter do better in school.”
The program will be available this year at Cedar Valley, College Place, Oak Heights, Spruce, Brier and Mountlake Terrace elementary schools. Each school decides when recesses are scheduled, but most elementary school students get 45 minutes of recess per day. There are similar programs to get kids more active at recess across the U.S. But Hershey and co-worker Jennifer McCloughan
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Land-use planners ready to apply lessons from slide Herald Writer
EVERETT — Snohomish County has yet to change any permanent land-use rules about what people can build near steep, unstable slopes after the deadly Oso landslide. Policy makers expect to take a first run at applying the lessons of Oso to the county’s land-use
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code between now and mid-2015. The work is to occur as part of an update of the state-mandated critical areas regulations, which the county must complete in June. “I want to keep this issue alive and on people’s minds,” Council Chairman Dave Somers said. “I don’t want to lose this one. I want to look at making some changes so we’re better prepared in the future.” Somers spoke Tuesday after a
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council briefing by county Planning Director Clay White. The discussion was a follow-up to two emergency ordinances the County Council enacted in June to prevent people from building in the immediate slide zone and areas to the east, where flood dangers have increased. The temporary measures are valid for six months, unless renewed. Council members, when they
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adopted the emergency action in the spring, stopped short of making any changes that would affect building rules countywide. The county’s existing regulations require a geotechnical study for proposed building sites within 200 feet of a landslide-hazard area. The March 22 slide killed 43 people and destroyed about 40 homes when it spread debris across a square-mile area.
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The closest homes to the Oso slide stood well over 300 feet from the precipitous hillside that gave way. They were built in the 1960s and 1970s, long before the current regulations took effect. Several family members of the dead, and survivors who lost property, are suing the county and the state for an alleged failure See SLIDE, Page A7 Grumbly 57/50, C6
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