Everett Daily Herald, November 12, 2014

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59 years and counting Daughter will run popular family-owned bakery after patriarch dies

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530 faces major test After the mudslide wiped out the road and changed the course of the Stilly, the highway was rebuilt to try to prepare for the unknown. By Kari Bray Herald Writer

they found another use for some of it,” Flood said. The suspects in the Nov. 2 bust were caught with about $1,000 in merchandise, Flood said. They were arrested for investigation of second-degree retail theft with special circumstances, a felony offense.

OSO — Winter weather is expected to be the highway’s first big test. For more than six months, crews have worked to rebuild and landscape the stretch of Highway 530 between Arlington and Darrington that was buried in the Oso mudslide. Planners knew flooding would be a threat to the new road. The March 22 slide, which killed 43 people and destroyed a neighborhood, also altered the course of the North Fork Stillaguamish River in ways that remain to be seen. In an effort to prepare for the river’s unpredictable behavior, crews elevated the road and added new culverts and drainage. Nearby slopes were tapered down, rock barriers installed between the road and the river, and plants put in the ground with roots meant to clutch the soil and soak up water. “We’ve been making sure as we opened the road that there’s no more movement on the slopes,” said Travis Phelps, a spokesman for the state Department of Transportation. “Those plants are really going to help pull things together and hold that soil.” Planting thousands of trees and shrubs near the highway is the last piece of the project. Contractors expect to be done in December, weather permitting, Phelps said.

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MARYSVILLE — Oosterwyk’s Dutch Bakery in downtown Marysville has been family owned and run for 59 years. The Oosterwyk family has a rich history in baking, as well as with the city. When Gerard Willem Oosterwyk, 93, died Oct. 20,

his daughter, Marja Oosterwyk, knew what she was going to do. She’ll keep baking. “We are the only old-fashioned scratch bakery for miles around,” his daughter said. “We still provide specialties to local folks. We provide more than 70 Yulekaka loaves for the Normanna Lodge in Everett. And with many Dutch traditions

around the holidays, we can’t make enough almond sticks.” Bread was truly her father’s specialty. His passion for baking started when he was a boy in The Netherlands. “My father always said that he became a baker because when he was growing up, there was never enough bread on the table,” Oosterwyk said.

At his stepmother’s bidding, 14-year-old Gerard learned to bake bread in his hometown of Boskoop, going on to earn his first diploma from the Institute of Bread Baking. He eagerly put his trade to work, until life was upended by World War II. His See BAKER, back page, this section

Aluminum foil used in shoplifting Wrapping it around anti-theft devices to prevent their effectiveness is a trick widely known among heroin addicts. Herald Writer

SNOHOMISH — Moneymaking schemes are a popular topic of conversation among the criminal community. One such scheme ended in three

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Police Chief John Flood said. He credited the Nov. 2 bust at the Snohomish Station Kohl’s to increased anti-shoplifting patrols and proactive store security. Snohomish police started seeing thieves trying the foil ruse about a year ago, Flood said. The crooks wrap bits of foil around the security tags. “Because they have plenty of foil around to smoke heroin,

Old toy soldiers At ease, men: Little green army men have been inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame (Page D6). “The entire little green army man division is honored,” the walkie-talkieholding spokesman said as he accepted the honor on behalf of the retired Dear Abby. . . .D5 Good Life . . . .D1

grenade-thrower, who now holds a cocktail shaker; the minesweeper who now uses his metal detector to look for coins; and the bazooka guy, who operates a T-shirt cannon at sporting events. Nothing by nyet: Try as he might, Russian President Vladimir Putin has been unable to break the chill

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between himself and President Barack Obama. Obama rebuffed Putin over small talk about the weather and deftly avoided a backslap from Putin (Page A8) As a last resort, Putin challenged Obama to a friendly game of hoops, even offering to be “skins.” Don’t need a weatherman Short Takes . . .D6 Sports . . . . . . . C1

to know which way the wind blows: The mayor of a Chicago suburb wants to ban saggy pants, adding that he won’t consider the fashion socially acceptable until he sees “weather newscasters on TV with their pants halfway down” (Page A2). This explains the mayor’s plaid pants and loud tie.

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In the back of Oosterwyk’s Dutch Bakery on Third Street in downtown Marysville, Marja Oosterwyk peers out from behind a few of the hundreds of cards and notes received since her dad, Gerard Willem Oosterwyk, died Oct. 20. A newspaper obituary and a memorial card, both with photos of Oosterwyk, hang to the left on the cabinet.

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