Everett Daily Herald, October 29, 2014

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Searching for normal Other schools offer support By Amy Nile and Kari Bray Herald Writers

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Marysville School District parents speak to Superintendent Dr. Becky Berg on Tuesday night after a community meeting at Marysville Pilchuck High School. Local school and community officials spoke to parents and answered questions regarding the school’s plan to reopen in light of the shooting.

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MARYSVILLE — The wait is hard on teachers, too. Five days after a deadly shooting in the Marysville Pilchuck High School cafeteria, students and teachers are growing antsy to reunite and find some semblance of routine. At the same time, two police agencies on Tuesday were investigating threats believed to be

hoaxes aimed at Marysville schools and athletes. With classes at Marysville Pilchuck canceled until Monday, 1,200 students have been looking for places to gather and share. Some have been seeking out their teachers, present and past, all the way back to elementary school. Randy Davis, president of the Marysville Education Association, has been in frequent contact with faculty from Marysville Pilchuck where he spent

most of his 32 years in the profession teaching science and coaching. Teachers are looking forward to Monday, when they will see all their students again, he said. “We want the activities coming back to be student led,” Davis said. “We want to do what the students are requesting. That was the teachers’ message to me.” Something as simple as seeing more than a dozen of his students working traffic control for a parent meeting Tuesday night

made Randy Brasfield’s day. He’s a Navy ROTC member at Marsyville Pilchuck. “I was so energized getting to work with the kids again,” he said. “It put zip back in my step.” Three Marysville Pilchuck students remained hospitalized Tuesday, two in critical condition. As of Tuesday, victims Andrew Fryberg, 15, and Shaylee See NORMAL, back page, this section

Visiting Sandy Hook parents understand By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer

EVERETT — Better than anyone, Nicole Hockley and Mark Barden know the deep despair of grieving Tulalip and Marysville families. They know there is little comfort, not now. When a student opened fire at Marysville Pilchuck High School on Friday, these parents were 3,000 miles away. They were home in Newtown, Connecticut. “For me Friday, the aerial footage of the school, the kids leaving the school, it takes me right back,” Hockley said. She lives with the agony families here now feel, “and everything that comes after.” Hockley and Barden each lost a beautiful son in the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings at

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Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School. First-graders Dylan Hockley, 6, and Daniel Barden, 7, were among 20 children and six Sandy Hook staff members who died that day in a gunman’s attack at their school. “We know what it’s like down the road,” said Barden, who on Tuesday joined Hockley for an interview at The Daily Herald. Having lost a little boy who lit up her world, Hockley found purpose after Newtown’s nightmare. “It’s important to remember that you will find a way through this,” she said. “You will never be the same. Your community will never be the same.” Both are involved in Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit group that helps people

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Nicole Hockley’s son, Dylan, 6, was killed in the Dec. 14, 2012, shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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By Rikki King and Eric Stevick

Red-clad students around Snohomish County are cutting out paper hearts, decorating banners and posting photos and messages of support on social media after Friday’s shootings at Marysville Pilchuck High School. They’ve worn red and white, the school’s colors, in class and at sporting events. Photos on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram show students from dozens of high schools showing support in various ways. Some stood in the shape of a heart, others held signs and one group formed their hands into hearts underwater at a pool. The message is the same in every image: “We love Marysville Pilchuck.” In Arlington and Snohomish, students remember when they were struggling with trauma. In Arlington, it was the deadly Oso mudslide in March. In Snohomish, a stabbing nearly killed a student — three years to the day before the Marysville shootings. Banners, cards and signs of solidarity mattered after the violence that almost took the life of April Lutz. The high school freshman and her friend, Bekah Staudacher, were stabbed by a classmate. The town rallied around the girls, and support poured in from other communities. Neighboring high schools sent heartfelt messages of unity. “Those small expressions, and they may seem small, have a powerful impact,” district spokeswoman Kristin Foley said. “It means a lot that others were rooting for us.” So Snohomish teachers and coaches have reached out. “They helped pull us through,” Foley said. “I am confident that the community will be there for Marysville.” At a time when people are reeling from the inexplicable violence of a teenager, Guy Kennedy gets choked up thinking about the kindness shown by his daughter and her friends, who are students at Arlington High School. Arlington teens were rattled

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