Everett Daily Herald, November 10, 2014

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Hawks stomp Giants

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Seattle rolls on a franchiserecord 350 yards rushing,

HONOR: Veterans Day

is Tuesday, and we’ll show our appreciation with several events around the region. See Page A6 for a list of ceremonies.

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DO SOMETHING: Members of Congress return to Washington Wednesday. Will they be able to pass a spending bill to fund the government past Dec. 11?

ROSETTA: Europe’s space probe was

launched in 2004 and scientists are planning to land the unmanned spacecraft on a comet this week. It would be the first ever comet landing.

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Ebola plan in the works Hospitals, public health experts and others have been working together in case the disease shows up here. By Rikki King Herald Writer

EVERETT — On the rare chance that someone with Ebola shows up in Snohomish County, paramedics, hospitals, clinics

and public health experts would be faced with a contagious, dangerous disease unlike anything they’ve ever seen. That’s why they’ve been quietly working together for weeks on a comprehensive plan

involving all the health care providers in the county. Resources are in place, and those partnerships have come from coordinating on previous events, such as the H1N1 pandemic in 2009 — known informally as swine flu — and the more recent Oso mudslide, said Shaughn Maxwell, a captain with Snohomish County Fire District 1.

That work involves simulations and drills for paramedics, hospitals and clinics. The practice runs have found the gaps. In addition, two fire rigs in the county have been outfitted to safely transport an Ebola patient, and emergency responders throughout the county have See EBOLA, Page A2

Everett streets plan drafted

Edmonds opens up

After four months of work, the task force devised 16 broad strategies for how the city can tackle problems from crime to homelessness.

Loaner umbrellas around the city are for anyone to use

By Chris Winters

Edmonds was inspired by similar programs at two shopping areas, Seattle’s University Village and the mall at Alderwood in Lynnwood, she said. The bright-green bumbershoots not only make pedestrians more visible, they

EVERETT — Everett’s Community Streets Initiative task force wraps up its work Nov. 13 with a long list of recommendations to the city. The task force, convened by Mayor Ray Stephanson, was charged with developing recommendations for the city to tackle homelessness, mental health, street-level nuisances, crime and other societal ills. After four months of meetings, the work now moves from generating ideas to putting them into action, although the way forward won’t be easy, simple or cheap. A draft of the task force’s final report shows that the problem is much bigger than Everett itself, and that solving those problems will involve coordinating local and state governments, nonprofit organizations, businesses, neighborhoods and the faith communities. “It became more evident as we talked to each that it’s going to take everyone in that room and then some to make a pretty significant impact,” said Sylvia Anderson, co-chairwoman of the task force. Among the task force’s major realizations was that the current social service network in and around Everett was fragmented among nonprofits, the justice system and other groups who often operated in isolation of one another. “There’s so many people and we weren’t talking to each other,” said Anderson, who as CEO of the Everett Gospel Mission is on the front lines of fighting homelessness in the city. “Some things were quietly

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See STREETS, Page A2

EDMONDS — If fall’s stormy weather tends to keep you inside, go to downtown Edmonds. A program to loan brightgreen umbrellas throughout the downtown area has been

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launched by the Edmonds Downtown Alliance. About 250 umbrellas have been deployed at 40 locations. “There’s at least one umbrella stand per block on each side of the street,” said Pam Stuller, president of the advisory board for the Edmonds Downtown Alliance. “In some long blocks,

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there are several stands.” The program is less than a week old and “the reaction has been really positive,” Stuller said. Some businesses already have asked, “How do I get an umbrella stand in front of my shop?” The idea to bring the umbrella lending program to downtown

Full-meal deal Brought to you by Tums: PETA has asked the Discovery Channel not to air its special, “Eaten Alive,” in which a man reportedly enters the belly of an anaconda in a snake-proof suit. Spoiler alert: Both man and beast survive the stunt. But even if the snake survived, PETA Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8

says, it suffered (Page B4). If Discovery must air “Eaten Alive,” PETA says, it asked that its air date be moved from Dec. 7 to Thanksgiving, so turkey-stuffed viewers can at least feel some empathy for the snake. Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: ABC’s “Castle” has jumped the

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shark with mystery novelist Richard Castle crossing over into an alternate dimension (The Clicker, Page B4). Actually, the phrase “jump the shark” has jumped the shark and will know be known as “being eaten alive by an anaconda.” Don’t know much about history: On this day in Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1

1975, the ship SS Edmund Fitzgerald and its crew of 29 sank during a storm on Lake Superior (Page B4). The only survivor was Canadian folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, who stuck around long enough to hear the cook say, “Fellas, it’s been good to know ya,” and then took one of the lifeboats. —Jon Bauer, Herald staff

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Pam Stuller, owner of Walnut Street Coffee, helped pioneer the umbrella share program in Edmonds. “The reaction has been really positive,” she says.

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