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Council takes action on comments “With regret,” the Snohomish County Council authorizes an outside investigation into remarks Deputy Executive Mark Ericks made against some of its members.

By Noah Haglund

made against some of its members by Deputy Executive Mark Ericks.

The contract will pay an attorney up to $15,000 to determine what Ericks said and whether it amounted to

Herald Writer

EVERETT — A divided Snohomish County Council voted Monday to authorize an outside investigation into comments

workplace harassment.

“We are pursuing this action with regret,” council Chairman Dave Somers said Monday. “We welcome further dialogue with the executive to address these issues and to repair the relationship between the council and the executive as it is set forth in the county charter.”

Ericks’ boss, Executive John Lovick, said last week he had performed his own review and found

no evidence of harassment.

Ericks reportedly said he would kill Councilman Terry Ryan “if it wasn’t for jail time” and acted amused when another manager offered to draw up death certificates for Ryan and Somers. In a formal complaint last month to Lovick, Somers also accused Ericks of admonishing a council analyst “for doing her job and asking reasonable questions” about next year’s budget.

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Helping soothe the wounds School crisis expert Mary Schoenfeldt will help the district recover

“If verified, we cannot have people working here who are prone to making these kinds of comments,” Ryan said Monday.

In authorizing the contract with a 3-2 vote, the council split along familiar lines.

Supporting the investigation were Somers, Ryan and Councilman Ken Klein — all subject, to one degree or another, to See COMMENTS, Page A2

Woman accused again of stealing Prosecutors charge April Laughlin, who already has served prison time for embezzlement, with ID theft and forgery in Snohomish County and multiple counts of theft in King County.

By Diana Hefley Herald Writer

that will be paid with federal grant money.

“It is kind of surreal,” Schoenfeldt said. “You usually get on an airplane to go do that work.”

EVERETT — April Laughlin was sent to prison four years ago after embezzling more than $200,000 from her employer.

It doesn’t look like the Everett woman has mended her ways.

Laughlin, 35, is in legal trouble again for allegedly stealing from two employers. She is charged in King County with multiple counts of theft, accused of forging checks from a Woodinville company in 2013. Last month, Snohomish County prosecutors charged her with identity theft and forgery, alleging that Laughlin bilked thousands of dollars from a Monroe business where she worked for a few months earlier this year.

Laughlin is expected to answer to the charges Friday in Snohomish County Superior Court. If she is working, prosecutors are going to ask the judge to order that Laughlin provide them with the name and address of her employer. Prosecutors intend to send a copy of the charging documents to any of Laughlin’s bosses.

They also want the judge to make Laughlin keep them apprised if she changes jobs.

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Scientists re-create what may be life’s first spark

By Seth Borenstein

that process.

Scientists have been able to make these RNA bases other ways, using chemical mixes and pressure, but this is the first experiment to test the theory that the energy from a space crash could trigger the crucial chemical reaction, said lead author Svatopluk Civis of the Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry in Prague.

Civis said the scientists used a laser almost 500 feet long that for a fraction of a second zapped the chemical soup with an invisible beam. The power was so intense and concentrated that Civis said that for less than a billionth of a second, it was equivalent to the output of a couple of nuclear power plants. It produced what would be around a billion kilowatts of energy for that sliver of time over a fraction of an inch, generating heat of more than 7,600 degrees Fahrenheit, the researchers said.

Some of the earliest life on Earth seemed to coincide with a period called the Late Heavy Bombardment, when the solar system’s asteroid belt was bigger and stray space rocks hit our planet more often, said study coauthor David Nesvorny, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Colorado.

At the time, asteroids

were bombarding Earth 10 times more frequently than before or after.

Outside experts were divided about the importance of the experiment.

Steve Benner, a prominent biological chemist at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Florida, said it is quite relevant because it produced the starting material that would have been around in an early Earth.

But John Sutherland of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, said the amount produced of one base was so small that the results don’t seem relevant.

Other researchers also downplayed the work.

An alternative theory of early life on Earth says that microbes arrived here from space aboard a comet or an asteroid — a sort of seed theory of life. Civis’ work bolsters what would instead be a fire theory of life. It is a theory of both creation and destruction.

“Civility goes both ways in this business,” Lovick said. “Dave has shown a lack of civility toward me and toward the office of county executive. I look forward to putting facts on the table.”

Lovick also said, “Grown, adult men should be able to work out issues among themselves.”

During the council meeting Monday, Somers said that Lovick told him last month that Ericks “knew he had to resign.” Lovick later said Somers mischaracterized their private discussion.

The council contract authorizes hiring attorney Tom Fitzpatrick, of the Seattle law firm Talmadge/ Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick is a former chief civil deputy

prosecutor for Snohomish County. He also worked as one of the county’s top administrators during former Executive Aaron Reardon’s first term in office.

Under the contract, Fitzpatrick is to receive $340 per hour up to a maximum of $15,000. His report is due by the end of January. Based on interviews, it’ll be his job to determine what people remember Ericks and others saying, and how those comments square with county policies.

The contract calls for interviewing up to 30 people present at an October cabinet meeting when some of the comments were made by Ericks and Dan Chrisman, the

deputy director of the Medical Examiner’s Office.

Chrisman was hired in September, but a majority of the council voted to cut his position from next year’s budget. He used to work in the Bothell Police Department, including when Ericks worked as Bothell’s police chief.

Before the dust-up at the county, Ericks had compiled a distinguished record from more than 40 years in law enforcement.

When Lovick recruited him in 2013 to be the county’s top administrator, he was running the U.S. Marshals Service that covers Western Washington.

Noah Haglund: 425339-3465; nhaglund@ heraldnet.com. Twitter: @ NWhaglund.

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WASHINGTON — Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth.

The researchers zapped clay and a chemical soup with the laser to simulate the energy of a speeding asteroid smashing into the planet. They ended up creating what can be considered crucial pieces of the building blocks of life.

The findings do not prove that this is how life started on Earth about 4 billion years ago, and some scientists were unimpressed with the results. But the experiment does bolster the long-held theory.

“These findings suggest that the emergence of terrestrial life is not the result of an accident but a direct consequence of the conditions on the primordial Earth and its surroundings,” the researchers concluded in the study published

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This handout photo shows the Asterix Laser System in Prague. Scientists used the laser to re-create what could have been the original spark of life on primordial Earth, possibly ignited by a crashing asteroid.

Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The laser-zapping produced all four chemical bases needed to make RNA, a simpler relative of DNA, the blueprint of life.

From these bases, there are many still-mysterious steps that must happen for life to emerge. But this is a potential starting point in

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Ericks’ alleged comments.

Council members Brian Sullivan and Stephanie Wright opposed the investigation.

“I think we need to put this behind us and shake hands and move forward,” Sullivan said. “I just don’t see ratcheting this up as being productive.”

Some council members have accused Sullivan of being too cozy with Lovick’s administration. Sullivan, Lovick and Ericks previously served together as Democratic state lawmakers. Ericks’ daughter, Marian Ericks,

now works for Sullivan as a legislative aide.

Lovick sat through the council vote but didn’t speak during the meeting. Afterward, however, he made clear his frustration with Somers, whom he accused of trying to bully his administration.

“He chose to go with the investigation and I am saying, ‘Bring it on,’ ” Lovick said.

The executive said he took Somers’ complaint seriously. Though he disagrees with spending $15,000 on the new workplace investigation, he said he’s prepared to cooperate.

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Worker dies after Boeing airbag accident

By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer

EVERETT — A contract worker who was injured in a Nov. 13 accident on Boeing’s Paine Field flight line died Sunday.

The mechanic, Ken Otto, was

an employee of Everett-based Jamco America. He and an employee of a different contractor were working on a first-class seat in a 777 when a “partially disassembled” airbag system accidentally discharged, Boeing said in a statement released Monday.

Otto, 50, was taken by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. He died Sunday in Seattle.

The other worker, an employee of Vartan Product Support, was treated on site, taken to a local hospital and released, according to Boeing.

Both Jamco and Vartan are based in Everett and are subsidiaries of foreign companies.

Boeing declined to identify the worker, and a receptionist at Jamco America said the company does “not have any public information at this time.”

But a person familiar with the

accident confirmed Otto’s identity. His hometown couldn’t be confirmed late Monday.

Vartan did not respond to a request for comment.

Following the accident, “Boeing has reminded employees See AIRBAG, Page A4

Alligator, tarantula rescued from Sultan fire As the garage burned, the pet owner gave fire crews a quick lesson on how to wrangle the beast.

By Rikki King Herald Writer

SULTAN — Firefighters often get asked to rescue cats and dogs from smoke and flames.

At a recent garage fire in Sultan, though, the crews were asked to rescue a different kind of pet.

The kind that measures up to six feet, with a long snout and snapping jaws.

The American alligator, and its companion, a tarantula, were saved and unhurt, Sultan Fire Chief Merlin Halverson said.

The animals were in a part of the garage that hadn’t yet caught fire. The owner gave the crews a quick lesson in alligator wrangling: grab it by the tail.

So they did.

The plan was for the first firefighter who grabbed the alligator to hand it off to a second firefighter, the chief said. That took two tries to avoid being bitten.

“It didn’t work very well the first time because the alligator wasn’t really excited about being

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This alligator, estimated at 4 to 6 feet long, was found and rescued while crews battled a garage fire in Sultan in November. The alligator and a tarantula survived the fire.

held by the tail,” Halverson said.

The rescue happened while other crews fought the flames, he said. Firefighters from Monroe and Gold Bar also came to assist.

The cause of the Nov. 22 fire along Sixth Street remains under

investigation. It started just before 1:30 a.m. in a detached garage modified to include a living area, Halverson said.

Based on a picture provided by the fire district, the alligator appears 3 or 4 years old, said Jennifer Pramuk, curator

at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. The species is native to the southeastern U.S., can grow more than 15 feet long and can live more than 50 years. They eat small animals.

It’s not clear whether the Sultan alligator was legally owned.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife wasn’t involved in the case, according to that agency. Sultan city officials didn’t respond to questions from the newspaper.

Pet alligators have been illegal in Washington for about seven years now, according to Snohomish County’s animal control office. Some exceptions exist, including those for zoos and aquariums, and in cases where the owner can document that the alligator was owned in the state before the law was passed.

The woman who lives at the house suffered minor burns, Halverson said. Her grandchild and another adult who was there at the time both escaped without injury.

Electrical wiring and some items stored in the garage sustained damage from smoke and flames, but there was no major structural damage, the chief said.

Halverson’s crews sometimes have to rescue farm animals, but exotic creatures are rare, he said.

“To my knowledge this is the first alligator we’ve come across, and it will hopefully be the last,” he said.

Rikki King: 425-339-3449; rking@heraldnet.com.

3-year-old wounded self in shooting, detectives say The Lake Stevens boy’s parents had previously accused each other of leaving guns unsecured at home.

By Eric Stevick Herald Writer

LAKE STEVENS — A 3-year-old boy shot himself in the mouth last month near Lake Stevens.

That’s what detectives with the Snohomish County sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit now believe.

The shooting was reported around 10 p.m. Nov. 21 in the 600

block of East Lake Shore Drive.

The child was in a bedroom playing with a 4-year-old neighbor, according to the sheriff’s office. The boy’s father heard a loud noise from the room and forced open the locked door.

The 3-year-old had a mouth injury, and his father initially feared he had hit the boy with the door when he forced it open.

At Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, doctors determined the injury to the boy’s mouth was a gunshot wound. The child was flown by helicopter to Harborview Medical Center in serious condition. He suffered extensive injuries to his mouth and face. He has since been released from the hospital.

On Monday, the sheriff’s office provided an update on its ongoing investigation.

“He shot himself,” sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said.

“It was not the 4-year-old.”

There had been speculation that the 4-year-old neighbor may have accidentally shot the boy while the two were playing.

Court papers show access to guns had been an issue in the home before the shooting. Last year, the man’s wife sought a protection order for herself and their boy, then 18 months old. The man was accused of shoving her, grabbing her arms and making threats over multiple occasions, including suicidal threats. The court

didn’t find sufficient evidence of domestic violence, records show.

The wife also alleged the man left his guns unsecured around the house when his then-12-yearold daughter came to visit.

The woman at the time said she was concerned for the young boy’s safety.

The man said he kept his guns locked up but his wife left hers unsecured. He said her allegations stemmed from relationship arguments and her seeking custody of their son.

State has concerns about Arlington’s accountability The existence of a municipal airport has added complexity to the already delayed report.

By Kari Bray Herald Writer

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ARLINGTON — The city is waiting on results of a state audit that has been delayed several times while officials look into multiple concerns about city operations.

An audit of Arlington’s finances was released in September and found no problems with the city’s financial statements.

But the city’s accountability audit — a separate report that

looks beyond the numbers to explore how the city is managed — is pending.

“The conclusion of that audit has been delayed until we can resolve a number of issues with the city,” said Thomas Shapley, a spokesman with the state auditor’s office.

Details about those issues won’t be publicly available until after a formal exit interview with city officials, he said. In general, accountability audits examine the rules and laws a city is subject to, and whether city staff and leadership have adhered to those regulations.

“They look at operations,” Shapley said. “They look at whether or not local governments follow state and federal

A light and a gift Light a light this holiday season for someone you love, something you wish for or in remembrance of a loved one.

Each light is a donation to the city of Edmonds Youth Scholarship Fund, which enables Edmonds children to participate in Edmonds parks, recreation and cultural programs.

The conclusion of that audit has been delayed until we can resolve a number of issues with the city.

— Thomas Shapley State auditor spokesman

laws and their own local policies.”

The auditor hopes to release the report later this month.

“Accountability is things that we can do better,” assistant city administrator Kristin Banfield said. “And I’m one to say there are always things we can do better.”

The city is waiting to schedule an exit interview until it receives

A living fir tree is strung with lights and placed at the entrance of the Frances Anderson Center. The tree will be lit through Jan. 2. After the holidays, the tree will be planted in the interior of Pine Ridge Park.

To light a light, call 425-7710268 for a form or pick up a form from the Frances Anderson Center, 700 Main St. in Edmonds.

Edmonds graduation requirements: Edmonds School District staff members will discuss graduation requirements during a “Superintendent’s Roundtable” from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday in the board rooms at the administration building, 20420 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood. The community is welcome to attend and ask questions in person or online

notice the audit is complete, she said. The interview can be a private meeting between a couple city leaders and state officials or a public meeting with the city council and other interested parties.

“We let all of our council members know when that meeting is,” Banfield said. “If more than four of them (a quorum) want

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The state has new credit requirements for the class of 2019 and beyond. Staffers will discuss the impact of the new rules and what high schools are doing to prepare graduates.

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to attend, we’ll publish that as a public meeting.”

She expects the majority of the council may want to attend, and the meeting would be open to the public but separate from regularly scheduled city council meetings.

Banfield wasn’t sure when to expect a meeting notice. The state auditor’s office has delayed the report multiple times.

“We’ve had two or three false starts where they thought they were done but needed more time,” Banfield said. “We do take the audits very seriously and we try to implement recommendations as quickly as possible.”

City officials have some hints See ARLINGTON, Page A5

Christmas Festival from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursdays and Fridays and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturdays through Dec. 20.

There will be candle-making tours, cookies, a Nativity and candle sales.

Proceeds benefit the convent at 29206 64th Ave. NW, Stanwood. More information: www.quietlightcandles.com or 360-629-0285.

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Minor flooding possible on Stillaguamish River

By Rikki King Herald Writer

EVERETT — Heavy rains predicted this week could bring flooding to Snohomish County, particularly along the Stillaguamish River in the Arlington area.

At least two prolonged periods

of rain are expected between Monday afternoon and Wednesday evening, said Josh Smith, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle. That could mean up to 3 inches of rain in the lowlands, with more in Darrington, and up to 9 inches in the mountains.

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and suppliers, as well as airplane operators, not to make an electrical connection to the seatbelt airbag system unless all the components of the system are completely installed,” according to the company’s statement.

The state Department of Labor and Industries, Boeing and Jamco are investigating the accident.

Airbags are installed in thousands of airplane seats to meet federal safety requirements that passengers be able to withstand an impact equal to 16 times the force of gravity. Airbags are needed on “difficult-to-certify seat placements,” such as unconventional seats in first and business classes and bulkhead-row seats, according to AmSafe, a Phoenix, Arizona-based manufacturer of the devices.

The company has the only seatbelt airbags certified for commercial airplanes, according to AmSafe’s website.

Otto was working on an AmSafe device when the accident occurred. The company could not be reached for comment.

A Boeing spokesman

said he was not aware of any incident similar to the Nov. 13 accident.

Outside suppliers make seats for Boeing airplanes.

Customers purchase the seats from the suppliers, who deliver them to Boeing factories, where they are installed by Boeing mechanics.

Contractors often deal with problems identified by customers after a seat is installed, according to Boeing workers.

Two accidents on Boeing’s Everett flight line in 2012 also sent workers to Harborview with serious injuries. In one, a Boeing mechanic was crushed while working on a 747. In the other accident, a Boeing employee’s legs were crushed under a 787 that was being towed.

In the past five years, Labor and Industries has found violations in eight workplace safety investigations at Boeing’s Everett plant. The department found violations during two investigations into Jamco. It has not investigated any issues at Vartan Product Support.

Dan Catchpole: 425339-3454; dcatchpole@ heraldnet.com; Twitter: @ dcatchpole.

“It’s going to be a little bit soggy,” Smith said.

The Weather Service on Monday issued a hydrology outlook predicting “a plume of moisture” and potential river flooding for much of Western Washington.

The Snohomish and Skykomish rivers aren’t expected to flood, but

it depends on the rainfall, Smith said. People should keep an eye on the forecast as the week develops.

The Stillaguamish River in the Island Crossing area is expected to crest above flood stage late Wednesday or early Thursday, according to the Weather Service.

Only minor flooding is predicted

at this point.

Warmer temperatures are expected until Wednesday as well, but could start to drop again Thursday, Smith said.

Friday temperatures could be back in the 40s, he said.

Rikki King: 425-339-3449; rking@heraldnet.com.

AROUND THE COUNTY Lynnwood: Police need volunteers for Citizens Patrol training, tasks The Lynnwood Police Department is seeking volunteers to serve on Citizens Patrol.

Citizens Patrol volunteers help police with tasks such as traffic control and checking on businesses and neighborhoods.

Volunteers are asked to work two four-hour shifts a month, in addition to training.

Shifts can be daytime, evening or weekends.

Applicants must be 18 and also attend the department’s Citizens Academy.

For an online application and more information, go to www. ci.lynnwood.wa.us or call 425-6705635 or 425-670-5639.

Other kinds of police-related volunteer opportunities also are available.

Meadowdale: Monday meeting about parks Share your thoughts about public access, fish populations and maintenance at Snohomish County’s Meadowdale Beach Park from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday.

County parks staffers are hosting the meeting at Meadowdale High School to discuss a feasibility study of the park northwest of Lynnwood.

The meeting is planned for the school’s Great Hall (entrance nearest the flagpole) at 6002 168th Street SW, Lynnwood.

For more information, contact parks engineer Logan Daniels at 425-388-6619 or logan.daniels@ snoco.org.

Mill Creek: Child care for Town Center shoppers The city of Mill Creek is offering child care while parents shop at Town

Center from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday.

The suggested donation is $10 and a canned food item for the local food bank.

Snacks will be provided for children, along with activities and a movie. Children ages 4 to 10 are welcome.

Snohomish: Kla Ha Ya Days festival fundraiser scheduled for Saturday A fundraiser to benefit the Kla Ha Ya Days festival has been set for 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday.

People who are 21 and older will receive five tasting tokens for locally made spirits, wine and beer with the $15 tickets.

They can buy extra drinks, food and bottles to take home.

The event is scheduled to take place at Dairyland Farm, located at 12125 Treosti Road in Snohomish.

Man found dead in Everett died of overdose Associated Press

Everett City Council candidate later convicted of two counts of murder in Arizona.

Oakstar had testified in court against Forde, who is now on death row.

He died in Everett this year from an overdose attributed to methamphetamine and morphine, with the morphine likely in the

EVERETT — A death investigation is wrapping up for Oin Glenn Oakstar, a man whose body was found near an Everett overpass in October.

Oakstar, 43, had ties to a deadly borderwatch group involving Shawna Forde, a former

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form of heroin, according to the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Heart disease also may have been a contributing factor in his death, which was ruled an accident.

Oakstar lived most of his life in Arizona, not far from the border with Mexico. Everett police don’t

know how or why Oakstar ended up in this part of the country.

His body was found in a tent on railroad property close to the 41st Street overpass near I-5.

Everett police detectives had been waiting for the medical examiner’s report and now are expected to close their case.

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problems are related to airport management.

Kevin Duncan of Arlington Flight Services Inc. said he submitted complaints about the airport to the state auditor’s office this fall.

The auditor received a complaint through the office’s citizen hotline on Oct. 3, Shapley said, but he could not release or confirm the name of the complainant.

Duncan has confronted the city council and the Arlington Airport Commission in the past, according to meeting minutes. He forwarded his concerns to the auditor’s office because they “seemed to fall on deaf ears” at the city level, he said.

He’s worried, specifically, about the handling of airport properties with ties to Arlington Mayor Barbara Tolbert and Bruce Angell, planning commission chair and Tolbert’s personal partner.

Tolbert and Angell are volunteers with the annual Arlington Fly-In and have been since before Tolbert

was elected to the city’s top office. Tolbert is the executive director of the nonprofit Fly-In, which is run by a board of directors. The Fly-In is the city’s largest event of the year, and one of the largest flyins in the country.

In November, the airport commission moved to establish a new lease for the Fly-In storage site.

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LYNNWOOD — Opponents of the city’s new fireworks ban say they’ve collected enough signatures for a petition to overturn it.

The signatures — 4,740 of them — were presented at City Hall on Monday, said Ted Hikel, a former city councilman who leads Lynnwood Citizens for Fireworks and Freedom.

The city has three days to review the petition before the signatures must be forwarded to the Snohomish County auditor’s office for verification, Hikel said.

If the petition is submitted to the county and is found to meet all the requirements, the city then would have to enact the change or put it to a vote. The issue could be on the ballot in 2015.

An election date is not yet known, Hikel said Monday.

The petition signature campaign began shortly after the City Council voted to begin banning fireworks as of next year.

Before the ban, fireworks were allowed in Lynnwood during certain hours on July 4.

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about what auditors have been exploring.

Having a municipal airport, for example, adds a layer of complexity to city management and the auditing process, Banfield said.

Most Snohomish County communities don’t have a public airport. Because Arlington does, the Federal Aviation Administration requires the city to uphold certain safety, maintenance and management obligations, called grant assurances, in order to receive federal airport funding and to qualify for financial assistance programs.

If the audit finds any problems at the airport, staff and airport commissioners will work to remedy them, airport director David Ryan said.

In the meantime, they’re working to plug some holes in leases and to update the airport’s leasing policy. In November, they updated a lease for the Arlington Fly-In storage space, an agreement that had expired eight years ago. The commission plans to host

a workshop in January to review a new leasing policy for all airport properties, Ryan said.

The proposed policy puts existing practice into writing, he said. That includes meeting with prospective tenants, making sure site plans satisfy city and airport codes, and having the city attorney review each lease before the airport commission votes on it, according to the proposal.

Updating the policy and any outdated leases would be a priority with or without an audit, said Ryan, who became airport director in August.

“It’s just a matter of having a step-by-step process for what needs to happen to lease different properties at the airport … so that all leases are uniform,” he said. “Part of what I’ve been doing is going through the leases and trying to make sure they’re up to date.”

If the auditor has other recommendations to improve airport management, those can be implemented, as well, he said. But the city and airport won’t know what needs to be worked on until the audit is finished.

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–Mary Ellen Withrow, retired 40th Treasurer of the United States of America

■ lOaDeD WitH Free u.S. State Silver BarS: These heavy State of Washington Vault Bricks contain the only existing U.S. State Silver Bars bearing the State of Washington double forged proclamation. Each sealed Vault Brick contains six U.S. State Silver Bars, each bar weighing a full Troy ounce of solid .999 pure fine silver. All Washington residents taking the Vault Bricks are getting one U.S. State Silver Bar free and the World Reserve is giving up the remaining five U.S. State Silver Bars for just $57 each, that's over one hundred and eighty-seven grams of solid .999 pure fine silver. No free U.S. State Silver Bars will be given away to non Washington residents. the state of Washington Vault Bricks will soon be gone because it would be foolish for anyone to pay for a single silver bar. so Washington residents better hurry and call right now to get the sealed Vault Bricks loaded with a free U.s. state silver Bar,” said shissler. “these heavy Vault Bricks loaded with over one hundred and eighty-seven grams of solid .999 pure fine silver are being released until our last remaining U.s. state silver Bars are completely gone,” shissler said. to make it fair, special toll Free overf low hotlines have been set up to ensure all residents have an equal chance to get them.

Rapid shipments to Washington residents are scheduled to begin with the first calls being accepted at precisely 8:30am today.

“We’re bracing for all the calls and doing everything we can to make sure no one gets left out, but the U.s. state silver Bars are only being given away free for the next three days or until they’re all gone, whichever comes first. For now, residents can claim the U.s. state silver Bars free just as long as they call before the order deadline ends,” confirmed shissler. “thousands of Washington residents are expected to call because it just doesn't make any sense to let non Washington residents get these heavy silver Bars before Washington residents do. so if lines are busy keep trying, all calls will be answered,” said shissler. ■

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Washington – You wish you could have found these heavy bars of solid silver buried in grandpa’s old coffee cans.

But thanks to an extended deadline put in place, U.s. state silver Bars each weighing a full troy ounce of solid .999 pure fine silver sealed away in heavy Vault Bricks are being handed over free for the next 3 days to every Washington resident. this is not a misprint. U.s. state silver Bars are being given away free to Washington residents who beat the order deadline for the sealed Vault Bricks containing six U.s. state silver Bars each weighing a full troy ounce of solid .999 pure fine silver and the World Reserve is giving up the remaining five U.s. state silver Bars for just $57 each, that’s over one hundred and eighty-seven grams of solid .999 pure fine silver.

Just a few weeks ago, nobody knew that these valuable U.s. state silver Bars bearing the state of Washington double forged proclamation would be the talk of the town and that's why everyone's trying to get them. “as Executive advisor to the World Reserve, i get paid to know when there's precious metal to be had. so when i was informed that these solid U.s. state silver Bars had finally surfaced and thousands are actually being handed over free to residents of the state of Washington who beat the order deadline, i pushed for this announcement to be widely advertised. “these heavy bars are solid .999 pure fine silver and will always be a valuable precious metal which is why everyone is snapping up as many as they can before they're all gone,” said Mary Ellen Withrow, the now retired 40th treasurer of the United states of america. the former treasurer wants to make one thing very clear.

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BELLEVUE — The AAA auto club said the average price of gasoline in Washington has fallen below $3 a gallon to $2.98.

That’s down 8 cents in a week and 13 cents in a month, but it’s 31 cents higher than the national average.

Some metro prices from the AAA’s Monday survey: Bellingham $3.01; Bremerton $2.91; Seattle-Bellevue-Everett $3.06; Tacoma $2.97; Olympia $2.99; Vancouver $2.91; Yakima $2.92; Tri-Cities $2.89; Spokane $2.82.

Bothell: 10th teen in car lot burglary arrested Another teen suspected of breaking into a car lot Friday in Bothell was arrested Sunday by Seattle police gang unit detectives at the food court at Northgate mall in Seattle.

Nine teens were arrested at the scene early Friday as police responded to an alarm.

Officers found the teens trying to match keys that were taken from the office with cars in the lot. Police said one more teen suspect may be at large.

The teens arrested in the Bothell case also are being investigated in connection with similar burglaries and car thefts that recently occuured at car lots in Edmonds and the Lake City area of Seattle.

Richland: Feds say Hanford request is too expensive The federal government contends that new Hanford cleanup deadlines sought by the state of Washington would require an extra $18 billion over the next 14 years.

The U.S. Department of Justice says in court documents that is not realistic and would jeopardize other cleanup projects at Hanford.

The Tri-City Herald reported both the Justice Department and the state of Washington filed court documents on Friday in the federal lawsuit the state has filed to speed up the cleanup of Hanford, the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site.

The state criticized the government’s management of Hanford.

It urged the court to require tighter oversight of Hanford’s leaky underground nuclear waste tanks and a plant being built to treat that waste.

Hanford for decades made plutonium for nuclear weapons.

Seattle: Fatal shooting at Georgetown motorcycle club Police are looking for a suspect in a shooting early Sunday that left one man dead and one wounded at a motorcycle club in Seattle.

Officers responded to a report of gunfire about 4 a.m. at the private club in the Georgetown neighborhood and found the victims.

They were taken to Harborview Medical Center, where one died.

Tacoma: Near-naked female driver arrested for DUI A 22-year-old woman accused of driving the wrong way on a highway and speeding away from officers while wearing only a bra has appeared in court — wearing a jail uniform.

KOMO-TV reported that Breyana Gallagher of University Place was arrested Saturday for investigation of eluding and DUI. She pleaded not guilty Monday. A judge released her on electronic home monitoring.

It was not known late Monday whether she had a lawyer.

Police in Fife say the Gallagher was headed the wrong way on State Highway 509, swerved in and out of traffic and ran a red light.

Police officers finally bumped her car to stop it.

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Settling soil delays Bertha fix Associated Press There are more problems for the Highway 99 tunnel project beneath downtown Seattle, as engineers study whether settling soil means work should be altered on a pit being dug to reach a stalled digging machine known as Bertha.

Tests over the weekend showed the settling around the pit is uneven, the Department of Transportation said.

No differential settling, which is potentially risky for structures, was detected on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, which remains safe for travel, the department said Monday.

The settling near the pit is apparently the result of groundwater pumped out

by Seattle Tunnel Partners as it digs a 120-foot access pit to reach and replace the damaged head of the boring machine.

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waterfront. To remove the 57-foot diameter cutting head, the 80-foot-diameter access pit needs to be about 120 feet deep. It’s currently about 70 feet deep.

Engineers last week said the viaduct had sunk about an inch in the past month. Since the 2001 Nisqually earthquake, some sections of the viaduct have sunk more than 6 inches, The Seattle Times reported in a story Sunday.

The risk of the 61-yearold viaduct collapsing in an earthquake is one reason the state pushed for the tunnel replacement project to carry Highway 99 traffic through the city.

The viaduct carries about 100,000 vehicles a day.

Work on the access pit was stopped for several weeks this fall after clam shells were uncovered.

Experts determined they were not archaeologically significant.

Herald staff BOTHELL — A 48-yearold woman has died after a domestic-violence assault in the Bothell area last week, according to the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office.

Both the woman and

her estranged husband, also 48, suffered critical injuries. Investigators on Monday did not release additional information about what may have happened. They previously said they believed the man had wielded the weapon.

He remains in intensive

care at a Seattle hospital.

The incident was reported 1:47 p.m. Thursday in the 2100 block of Maltby Road. The sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit is investigating.

The woman’s name and other details have not been made public.

Search for missing fisherman continues SNOHOMISH — The search continued Monday for a fisherman believed missing in Blackmans Lake in Snohomish.

The 38-year-old man was last seen Saturday and was reported missing Sunday, according to

the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. Crews on Monday were using sonar, high-tech cameras and search dogs in their effort to find him.

Poor visibility at the bottom of the lake was complicating the search, sheriff’s spokeswoman Shari Ireton said. The

man’s blue raft was found partially submerged in the lake Sunday.

Blackmans Lake, north of downtown Snohomish near the school district headquarters, is about 63 acres in area and averages about 14 feet in depth.

The man’s name was not made public Monday.

OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS

Dec. 12, 1967-Nov. 25, 2014 KEITH THORPE / PENINSULA DAILY NEWS

A pendant made from a scallop shell is in a collection of artifacts from the ancient Tse-whit-zen village on display at the Elwha Heritage Center in Port Angeles.

pendants made of elk teeth, carved fish hooks and a spindle whorl made from a whale vertebra, come from the Burke Museum at the University of Washington. There, some 80,000 Tse-whitzen artifacts have been stored since the village’s unearthing.

Suzie Bennett, manager of the Heritage Center, spent two full days at the Burke, sifting through 35 boxes, each of which contained anywhere from five to 100 artifacts. She chose 15 for the new exhibit, which also has a display of two Klallam stories: “The Strong People,” about how the Klallams were named, and “Nahkeeta,” the tale of how Lake Sutherland took form.

The stories apply to all Klallam people, Bennett said: the Lower Elwha, Jamestown S’Klallam and Port Gamble S’Klallam tribes. Arlene Wheeler, Lower Elwha Klallam planning director, hopes this exhibit gives viewers a broadened perspective on the place where they live.

“There were people here, thousands and thousands of years before European contact. Port Angeles is a baby, an infant,” she said.

Lower Elwha Klallam artist Roger Fernandes is among the artists in the “Spirit Unleashed” show.

The Seattle resident, a well-known painter and storyteller, is displaying his painting “Spirits Awaken,” a piece that fits well with the ancient artifacts.

The 32 works in “Unleashed” include works by Makah tribal member Brandon McCarty and longtime Port Angeles resident Clark Mundy.

In the past three years, Charles has watched the Elwha River dams come down, after a decades-long struggle. The river, once an abundant source of fish for her people, is free again, even as some of her ancestors’ treasured objects have come back home.

“We really have to sit back and absorb what we’ve accomplished,” Charles said.

“We want to share.”

Steven David Carlsen, age 46, of Mar ysville, Wash., passed away November 25, 2014 unexpectedly.

S t e v e n w a s b o r n December 12, 1967, in San Diego, California and came to Washington as a young boy with his family to have a better life. Steven graduated f ro m M a r y s v i l l e P i l c h u c k High School.

Steven leaves behind two s o n s , Ky l e a n d C o d y ; a n o l d e r b ro t h e r, G a r y ; a n d many of his extended family he shared his life with who shall miss him now that he’s gone.

Throughout Steven’s life he touched upon the lives of s o m a ny o t h e r s w i t h h i s kindness, his uplifting humor, and his capacity to love with all his heart. You always knew if you needed help and Steven was able, he’d always be there to lend a helping hand, no matter the issue. Steven worked hard to achieve success and to help those around him succeed.

Steven strived to better his life and the lives of those around him, and although he is gone now, he will never be forgotten; he is no longer here to make us laugh or make his mark on the world, but he’ll always be missed by those of us he marked as his friend and as his family, and in us he shall always be remembered. May he rest in peace.

Card of Thanks

Louwella Jones went home to be with Jesus and her late husband Glenn.

She is sur vived by kids, G a r r y, G l e n d a , D e b b i e ; seven grandkids and four great grandkids. She was loved by many and will be greatly missed.

Funeral Services at Floral Hills, 409 Filbert Rd., Lynnwood, Wash., December 15, 2014 at 1:00 p.m. with viewing 9:00 a.m. to service.

In lieu of flowers we ask that a donation be made to her church, which she loved with all her heart: Viewridge Community, 4800 Dogwood, Everett , WA 98203.

The family of Betty J. Beilfus would like to thank everyone for the cards, appetizers and prayers at Mom’s farewell memorial. It was so nice to see that Mom has so many very good friends.

Sincerely, Steve, Debbie, Julia, Stephen, Elizabeth and Mya Ritchie

In Loving Memory Michael Bustad

Another year has past since you left us. We think of you daily and miss you so much.

Love Dad, Nora, Jessica, Randi and family

Henrica Joanna (Van De Put) Kellogg

February 1, 1929 - Nov. 17, 2014

In Loving Memory of Tamara Mattson Oct. 20, 1964 - Dec. 9, 2003 Victim of Homicide

A memorial service will be held at St. Thomas More Parish in Lynnwood, WA on M o n d ay, D e c e m b e r 15 , 2014 at 11:00 a.m.

Merry Christmas Tam, It been 11 years ago since you left us. Seems like just yesterday. I love and miss you so terribly.

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PORT ANGELES — One thousand etched stones, once buried below the place that became Port Angeles, tell the story of the Klallam people.

These stones, along with a galaxy of other artifacts, came to light when the ancient Klallam village of Tse-whit-zen was discovered beginning in 2003.

Now seven of the stones — alongside some two dozen other Tse-whitzen artifacts — are part of an exhibit at the Elwha Heritage Center, where the Great Hall is the display space.

Viewing the collection, along with the center’s new “Spirit Unleashed” art show by native and non-native artists, is free at the Heritage Center, 401 E. First St., and the Great Hall is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays.

Some of the stones, smooth ovals that once rested in the palms of Klallam hands, were designed to catch people’s tears.

Many tears have been shed by the Native Americans who lived here, before and after the discovery of Tse-whitzen beneath what’s now Marine Drive. But for Lower Elwha Klallam tribal Chairwoman Frances Charles, this Heritage Center exhibit is a longawaited closing of a circle.

The artifacts, from a village where the Klallam people lived for 2,700 years, have much to teach, Charles believes.

They represent her tribe’s ancestors, people who fished in the salmonrich Elwha River long before it was dammed twice; who hiked high into the Olympic Mountains to commune with the spiritual and natural worlds.

These objects on display, which include

stopped a year ago. It has drilled about 10 percent of the way into a planned 2-mile tunnel to replace the viaduct.

State engineers are analyzing the settling data to make sure the pit, viaduct and nearby buildings are secure. On Sunday, the state said pumping necessary to reduce water pressure on the pit would be stopped.

However on Monday, Laura Newborn, spokeswoman for the viaduct replacement project, said the dewatering was continuing.

Seattle Tunnel Partners had told the state it planned to resume tunneling in April on the $2 billion project. It’s already about a year behind schedule.

The opening was previously scheduled for December 2015.

Bertha is stuck about 60 feet under a street not far from the Seattle

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U.S. to release torture report American sites around globe brace for fallout; security tightened

By Michael A. Memoli Tribune Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON — The most extensive review of U.S. intelligence-gathering tactics in generations is set to be made public Tuesday, reigniting a post-9/11 public debate over the use of torture to combat terrorism.

The Senate Intelligence Committee’s much-anticipated report comes after a years-long review of CIA practices and subsequent wrangling with the spy agency and the White House over whether its contents should be made public and, if so, which parts should be redacted.

In one of her final acts after six years as chair of the committee that oversaw the review, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., plans to discuss the findings in a speech on the Senate floor Tuesday morning as the report’s 480-page executive summary is released online.

A response by Republican

members of the committee will be released almost simultaneously, as will one by the CIA itself.

The full 6,300-page report on Rendition, Detention and Interrogation, or RDI, will remain classified.

Feinstein said she hoped the public would view the report in the “spirit of a just society (that) functions under law, and that when we make mistakes we admit them, we correct them, and we move on,” she told reporters Monday. “I think that’s an important thing.”

The inquiry is expected to reveal how the agency used waterboarding, sleep deprivation, stress positions and other so-called enhanced interrogation techniques more frequently than was legally authorized at then-secret prisons known as “black sites,” the Tribune Washington Bureau has reported.

It also rebuts claims that the interrogations were key to locating Osama bin Laden or

thwarting other terrorist plots, concluding that nearly all the intelligence gleaned through harsh techniques could have been obtained from more traditional intelligence-gathering systems.

As Feinstein finalized plans to release part of the report, Secretary of State John F. Kerry phoned her Friday to warn of the potential consequences of releasing the report at this time.

The State Department called for a review of security measures at overseas missions as a precaution against possible demonstrations, and White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Monday that the administration has taken “prudent steps to ensure that the proper security precautions are in place” at U.S. facilities around the world.

The administration insisted, though, that it supported the review and that the timing of its publication was entirely up to the committee.

Obama said this year that the nation “did a whole lot of things that were right” in the aftermath of 9/11, but also “we tortured some folks.”

“When we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation techniques — techniques that I believe and I think any fair-minded person would believe were torture — we crossed a line,” he said at an August news conference.

“That needs to be understood and accepted. And we have to, as a country, take responsibility for that so that, hopefully, we don’t do it again in the future.”

Former President George W. Bush defended the work of the CIA under his administration, and said that if the report “diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off base.”

“These are good people, really good people, and we’re lucky as a nation to have them,” he told CNN in an interview aired Sunday.

U.S., NATO combat command ends Ceremony marks closing of joint operations in Afghanistan.

By Lynne O’donnell Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — American and NATO troops closed their operational command in Afghanistan on Monday, lowering flags in a ceremony to mark the formal end of their combat mission in a country still mired in war 13 years after the U.S.-led invasion toppled the Taliban regime for harboring those responsible for 9/11.

The closing of the command, which oversaw the day-to-day operations of coalition combat forces, is one of the final steps in a transition to a support and training role that begins Jan. 1. But with President Barack Obama’s recent move authorizing U.S. forces in Afghanistan to fight Taliban and al-Qaida targets, America’s longest war will continue for at least another two years.

Obama’s decision to give American forces a more active role than previously envisioned suggests the U.S. is still concerned about the Afghan government’s ability to fight.

And agreements signed by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani

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WASHINGTON— The Obama administration issued guidelines Monday that ban federal law enforcement from profiling on the basis of religion, national origin and other characteristics, protocols the Justice Department hopes could be a model for local departments as the nation tackles questions about the role race plays in policing.

The policy, which replaces decade-old guidelines established under the Bush administration, also will require federal agencies to provide training and to collect data on complaints.

Civil rights advocates said they welcomed the broader protections, but were disappointed that the guidelines will exempt security screening in airports and border checkpoints and won’t be binding on local and state police agencies.

“It’s so loosely drafted that its exceptions risk swallowing any rule and permit some of the worst law enforcement policies

Progress reported in $1.1 trillion spending bill WASHINGTON — Lawmakers are finalizing a sweeping $1.1 trillion spending bill that would fund the government while addressing everything from trucker safety to battling Ebola.

The measure is the main piece of business facing a lame-duck Congress that wants to adjourn this week.

Republicans will take over the Senate when the new Congress reconvenes next month.

The measure would fund the government through September and passage

by Thursday would avert a government shutdown.

Md.: Plane hits home; 6 die A small, private jet crashed into a house Monday, killing a woman and her two young sons inside the home and three people aboard the aircraft, authorities said. The jet slammed into the home in Gaithersburg, Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Chief Steve Lohr said. The three people inside the home were identified as the woman and a month-old infant and a 3-year-old.

N.Y.: Jail guard arrested A jail guard has been arrested in connection with the death of a homeless ex-Marine inside a 101-degree jail cell in a special Rikers Island unit for mentally ill inmates, prosecutors said Monday.

Carol Lackner faces multiple counts of falsifying business records and official misconduct for making logbook entries indicating she toured every half hour to check on Jerome Murdough, 56, and other inmates in his unit even though video didn’t show her doing so, according to prosecutors in the Bronx. She faces up to four years if convicted on all counts.

Calif.: Damaging L.A. fires

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Lt. Gen. Joseph Anderson of the International Security Assistance Force Joint Command (center) hands over the flag of the IJC to the commander of International Security Assistance Force, Gen. John F. Campbell, during a ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.

to allow U.S. and NATO troops to remain in the country are seen as a red line by the Taliban, further narrowing any hope of peace talks.

Not only are the Taliban a resilient insurgency, a new generation of extremists inspired by Osama bin Laden threatens the entire region.

American forces are also involved in a burgeoning military campaign against Islamic State group militants in Syria

and Iraq, where Obama had hoped to end combat operations three years ago.

As NATO’s International Security Assistance Force’s Joint Command lowered its flag in the capital, the Taliban killed a police officer and four civilians at a police station in southern Afghanistan.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told The Associated Press that the group would continue to fight “until

all foreign troops have left Afghanistan.”

Up to 10,800 U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan for the first three months of next year, 1,000 more than previously planned, said a NATO official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss troop deployments. By the end of 2015, however, American officials say the U.S. troop total will shrink to 5,500, and to near zero by the end of 2016.

Federal ban on profiling unveiled

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and practices that have victimized and alienated American Muslim and other minority communities,” Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU’s Washington Legislative Office, said in a statement. “This guidance is not an adequate response to the crisis of racial profiling in America.”

Though the guidelines — five years in the making — were not drafted in response to recent high-profile cases involving the deaths of black individuals at the hands of white police officers, they’re nonetheless being released amid an ongoing national conversation about standards for police use of force, racial justice and the treatment of minorities by law enforcement.

“Particularly in light of certain recent incidents we’ve seen at the local level — and the widespread concerns about trust in the criminal justice process which so many have raised throughout the nation — it’s imperative that we take every possible action to institute strong and sound policing practices,” said

Attorney General Eric Holder, referring to the August shooting by a white police officer of an unarmed black 18-year-old in Ferguson, Missouri, and the chokehold death weeks earlier of a man in New York City.

The policy extends a ban on routine racial profiling that the Justice Department announced in 2003 under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft. Civil rights groups have long said those rules left open too many loopholes by allowing an exemption for national security and by failing to extend the ban to characteristics beyond race and ethnicity.

The new guidelines would end the carve-out on national security investigations and widen the profiling ban to prohibit the practice on the basis of religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity.

The rules cover federal agencies within the Justice Department, including the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms

and Explosives. They also extend to local and state officers serving on task forces alongside federal agents. Some activities of the Department of Homeland Security also are covered, such as civil immigration enforcement, but border and airport security screening are exempt along with interdictions at ports of entry.

The policy was laid out in a memo to law enforcement that provides concrete examples of law enforcement actions that would and would not be permissible.

The memo makes clear that agents may take race, ethnicity and other factors into account during investigations in limited circumstances. Those include if they’ve received specific information linking a person of that characteristic to a particular crime or threat to homeland security.

Still, their practical impact remains to be seen, especially since local police officers are the ones primarily responsible for traffic stops, 911 calls and day-to-day interactions with the communities they patrol.

A raging fire Monday destroyed a massive apartment complex under construction in downtown Los Angeles, sending up flames that were visible for miles while raining ash on a large area and snarling rush-hour traffic. More than 250 firefighters fought the blaze at a block-long building site, fire officials said. The fire’s radiant heat was strong enough to burst windows in three nearby buildings. Embers landed across a freeway, stopping traffic, igniting brush and charring traffic signs. It was one of two destructive early morning fires in the city. The other heavily damaged a building that houses multiple businesses.

AROUND THE WORLD Israel: Parliament dissolved

Lawmakers unanimously voted Monday to dissolve parliament, officially ending the legislature’s term two years ahead of schedule and kicking off the country’s election campaign ahead of a March 17 nationwide vote. A week after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition government dramatically disintegrated, the 120-seat Knesset voted 93-0 favor of disbanding and ending one of the shortest serving parliaments in Israeli history.

Ecuador: Activist killed An indigenous leader was slain just days before he planned to travel to U.N. climate talks in Peru to protest a Chinese-owned, open-pit copper mine being developed on his community’s ancestral lands, a tribal head said Monday. Shuar Federation President Jose Chumapi said Jose Tendetza’s decomposed body was found in a river last week, a rope tied around his waist.

Sierra Leone: Doctors strike for better Ebola care Junior doctors went on strike Monday to demand better treatment for health workers infected with Ebola, a health official said. The association representing junior doctors asked the government to make sure life-saving equipment, like dialysis machines, is available to treat infected doctors. The government has promised that a new, fully equipped unit is opening soon near the capital. But the doctors began their strike anyway, according to the Health Ministry. Ten of the 11 Sierra Leonean doctors who have become infected have died. Ebola has killed more than 6,300 people.

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New mortgage lending guidelines Lower-income and first-time home buyers could get into a house with a 3 percent down payment.

By Josh Boak Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Some Americans will soon be able to buy a home with a down payment as low as 3 percent, compared with the current minimum of 5 percent, the mortgage giants Fannie

Mae and Freddie Mac say.

The new lending guidelines announced by the companies Monday are designed to help more low-income and first-time buyers afford homes. Millions of Americans lost their savings or no longer had the income needed to set aside money for a home in the

aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession.

That has held down the sales of houses and condominiums and slowed the economic recovery.

The guidelines are designed to prevent the kind of reckless lending that fueled a housing bubble and eventually triggered the recession. Borrowers must have enough income to repay loans on a monthly basis for homes that would be their main residence.

This guideline would be intended to limit financial speculation.

“These underwriting guidelines provide a responsible approach to improving access to credit while ensuring safe and sound lending practices,” Mel Watt, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said in a statement. The FHFA oversees Fannie and Freddie, which have See MORTGAGE, Page A10

2.6M more Hondas added to repair list Associated Press DETROIT — Honda plans to replace the replace driver’s air bag inflators on 2.6 million more vehicles as it expands repairs to the entire U.S. The Japanese automaker is the only company to comply with demand from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to do repairs nationwide. Honda says it’s doing so to address customer concerns.

Air bags made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp. can inflate with too much force, blowing apart a metal canister and spewing shrapnel. At least five people have died due to the problem.

Honda and other automakers have limited recalls to high-humidity states mainly along the Gulf Coast.

Investigators have said that the air bag inflator propellant, ammonium nitrate, can burn faster than designed if exposed to prolonged high humidity. That can cause it to inflate air bags too fast.

Last week, a top Honda executive told a U.S. House subcommittee during a hearing that his company would expand the driver’s side repairs nationwide. Honda isn’t calling it a recall, though, and is maintaining that the driver’s air bag inflators are not defective.

Instead, Honda calls the expansion a “safety improvement campaign.”

For passenger-side air bag inflators, NHTSA says a recall remains limited to highhumidity areas because there’s no data to suggest a problem with them nationwide.

U.S. exporting more pollution Heat-trapping pollution released into the atmosphere from rising exports of U.S. gasoline and diesel dwarfs the cuts made from fuel efficiency standards and other efforts to reduce global warming in the United States, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Under President Barack Obama, the U.S. has reduced more carbon pollution from energy than any other nation, about 475 million tons between 2008 and 2013, according to U.S. Energy Department data. Less than one-fifth of that amount came from burning less gasoline and diesel fuel.

Yet the U.S. is sending more fuel than ever to other parts of the world. U.S. exports of gasoline and diesel released roughly 1 billion tons of carbon pollution into the atmosphere elsewhere during the same period, according to AP’s analysis.

Airline’s $2B upgrade

An attendee plays Fruit Ninja at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January 2013.

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Kids’ data still at risk

By Anne Flaherty Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Worried that toy stores, fast food chains, and other retailers are tracking your kids online this holiday season? A landmark 2013 law aimed at protecting the privacy of America’s youngest mobile consumers hasn’t stopped app developers from collecting vast amounts of data, including a person’s location and even recordings of their voice, according to privacy researchers and consumer advocates.

Whether mobile app developers seek parental consent first — as required by law — or pass the information on to advertisers isn’t entirely clear.

But if you prefer to stay anonymous, your options are limited: Wade through each mobile app’s privacy policies to make sure you are OK with the terms, or stick the phone on “airplane mode” to

shut off the wireless connection and risk losing functionality.

“Kids are such a lucrative market, especially for apps,” said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy.

“Unfortunately, there are still companies out there that are more concerned about generating revenue than protecting the privacy of kids.”

Americans have traded vast amounts of personal data in exchange for the ease and functionality of fun mobile applications on their phones.

But how is industry using that information?

Chester and other consumer advocates allege that fast food chains are increasingly focusing advertising dollars on digital media, targeting blacks and Hispanics.

They also warn that data from phones can be combined with offline information like home prices, race or income in ways

that could violate fair lending laws.

And a new site, PrivacyGrade. org, found that many popular kids’ apps like Talking Tom and Fruit Ninja collect information in ways parents wouldn’t necessarily expect.

Concerned in particular about industries’ focus on kids online, the Federal Trade Commission in July 2013 expanded the Child Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, to require app developers to get parental consent before collecting personal data on anyone younger than 13. hat includes information like the unique identifying device on a phone, a person’s phone number or a device’s location.

“It’s upped the ante for companies deciding whether they are going to market to kids,” said Michelle De Mooy of the Center for Democracy and Technology.

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Ralph Baer, video game pioneer, dies at 92

By David Marino-Nachison The Washington Post

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Game developer Ralph Baer shows his prototype of the first game console during a July 2009 press conference at the Games Convention Online in Leipzig, Germany.

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People Edmonds Community College Board of Trustees Chairwoman Emily Yim was elected to the Association of Community Colleges Trustees Executive Committee in October. Yim will serve as secretary-treasurer for a one-year term. Yim also is the executive director of the

At the dawn of the television age in 1951, a young engineer named Ralph Baer approached executives at an electronics firm and suggested the radical idea of offering games on the bulky TV boxes.

“And of course,” he said, “I got the regular reaction: ‘Who needs this?’ And nothing happened.”

It took another 15 years before Baer, who died Dec. 6 at 92, developed a prototype that would make him the widely acknowledged father of video games. His design helped lay the groundwork for an industry that transformed the role of the

Washington Alliance for Better Schools.

Peoples Bank has hired Natalie Witney as assistant vice president and branch manager of the Everett Financial Center. Witney has 17 years’ experience in the industry with the past six years as a branch manager for Union Bank.

Events HopeWorks, a Housing Hope affiliate, is hosting a Social Enterprise workshop from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday at HopeWorks Station, 3331 Broadway, Everett.

This workshop is a marketing question and answer session with Andrew Ballard, CEO

television set and generated tens of billions of dollars last year.

Baer “saw that there was this interesting device sitting in millions of American homes — but it was a one-way instrument,” said Arthur P. Molella, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation. “He said, ‘Maybe there’s some way we can interact with this thing.’”

A refugee from Nazi Germany, Baer had training in electronics as a teenager. He spent much of his early career developing surgical equipment, circuit boards and other technology for industrial and military clients.

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The workshop is $10 per agency.

Contact DianneEasley@ hopeworks.org for information or to RSVP. Biz Bits runs Monday through Saturday.

American Airlines says it will spend more than $2 billion to make its planes more pleasant for passengers, the latest salvo in a competition among carriers to attract high-paying frequent fliers.

American Airlines Group Inc. said Monday that it will invest in lie-flat seats, Wi-Fi service on international flights, more entertainment offerings and a refresh of its airport lounges around the world.

Arctic drill company admits to 8 felonies A company that operated a drill ship off Alaska’s Arctic coast has agreed to plead guilty to environmental and maritime crimes as part of a deal with prosecutors. The agreement calls for Noble Drilling U.S. LLC to plead guilty to eight felony counts and pay an $8.2 million fine, plus $4 million in community service payments.

Madoff exec sentenced Bernard Madoff’s former director of operations for investments has been sentenced to 10 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $155 billion. Daniel Bonventre, 67, was sentenced Monday in federal court in New York for his part in the company’s yearslong multibillion-dollar fraud.

Books sales via Twitter The Hachette Book Group said Monday that it has teamed with the e-commerce platform Gumroad in a deal that will allow Twitter users to purchase print editions of selected works by clicking on buy buttons from within authors’ tweets. The promotion begins Thursday.

French Toast Crunch returning to shelves General Mills said Monday that it bringing back popular ‘90s cereal French Toast Crunch in a nod to nostalgia. The food maker says the move is purely a response to consumer demand, but it comes as General Mills and other cereal makers are coping with weaker cereal sales due to changing consumer tastes.

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THE DAY ON WALL STREET U.S. stocks fell Monday as oil prices turned sharply lower and spooked investors into dumping shares of drillers and other energy-service companies.

Chevron dropped 3.7 percent and Exxon Mobil lost 2.3 percent.

On Monday: The Dow Jones industrial average lost 106.31 points, or 0.6 percent, to 17,852.48.

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agreement with major banks to expand lending. The FHFA declined Monday to say how many borrowers might benefit from having a 3 percent down payment.

The standard down

payment for mortgages insured through Fannie and Freddie has been 20 percent. That would mean that a first-time buyer would need $41,600 in cash to purchase a medianpriced home of $208,300, according to the National Association of Realtors.

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went to first-time buyers, compared with a historic average of 40 percent, the Realtors reported.

The new loans would be fixed-rate mortgages of up to 30 years for primary residences, though some policies vary between the companies.

Fannie could begin underwriting the loans

before the end of the year.

It said the loans would be geared toward firsttime buyers, require mortgage insurance payments because of the low down payment and mandate that buyers receive complete a financial counseling program.

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by computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, scores of apps that collect information are still aimed at kids.

For example, Fruit Ninja collects a phone’s location, which could be passed on to advertisers.

And Talking Tom, where kids can talk to and “tickle” an alley cat using the touch screen, collects a child’s audio recordings along with other information that can uniquely identify a phone.

Whether these apps would violate COPPA would depend on a number of factors, including whether and how they seek parental consent.

But because these apps collect information in surprising ways, PrivacyGrade.org gave them both D grades.

Outfit7, the developer behind Talking Tom, said in a statement that personal information and recordings are never shared with advertisers.

The developer says its app also complies with COPPA by providing “appropriate gate protections ... to distinguish adults from minors and restrict sharing on social media,” according to the statement.

Halfbrick Studios, which developed Fruit Ninja, said in a statement that it planned to release updates to Fruit Ninja and other apps to increase privacy protections.

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IN OUR VIEW | Political statements by county official

Neutrality key for ombudsman There’s no special knack in having an opinion; the trick is in knowing when, where and how to voice — or not voice — those thoughts.

Snohomish County Ombudsman John Koster is hearing criticism from some county employees and County Executive John Lovick, who hired him to launch the position a year ago, because of a fundraising letter he signed in support of the Freedom Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Olympia, as Herald Writer Noah Haglund reported in Monday’s Herald.

The letter, written by the foundation’s CEO, calls for “committed patriots” to support the foundation “in taking on the union machine.”

“For too long,” the letter continues, “labor leaders have ripped off our hard-working teachers and state employees,

forcing them to pay dues whether they want to be part of the union or not, then funneling that money to politicians at election time.”

Agree or disagree with the statement, but it’s an inflammatory stance to take for an ombudsman who was hired to model impartiality in investigating citizen complaints about county government, employee misconduct and other county actions.

There are no allegations that Koster used his office in backing the fundraising letter. It’s written on his own letterhead and makes no reference to his position as ombudsman for the county. And, Koster says, he sees no problem with signing the letter because taking on the position of ombudsman didn’t mean he had to give up his right to voice his opinion.

Except, it did mean he does have to show discretion in the opinions he holds publicly.

The county’s job description for the position reads: “The ombudsman shall be a person of recognized judgment, objectivity and integrity, who is well-equipped to analyze problems of law, administration and public policy.”

Koster, a few months after starting the job, acknowledged as much.

“We can’t be partisan, so I can’t be involved in any of the political races this year,” he told The Herald at the time.

“We have to be very non-partisan and neutral.”

To our knowledge, Koster didn’t publicly announce his opinions regarding candidates or issues this election season.

It will be up to the county council to decide if what Koster said about unions

qualifies as a partisan statement or one that failed to display objectivity. He has lost the confidence of Lovick, the Democrat who made a point of hiring a Republican for the position.

Such a strongly worded indictment against unions could make it difficult for Koster to continue his work as an ombudsman, raising questions about his ability to be an impartial judge if he has to investigate a complaint, for example, about a county employee who belongs to a union. And about 80 percent of the 2,800 county employees are represented by unions.

Koster has every right to voice his opinion. And the county council has every right to decide if his apparent inability to show discretion means he’s not the right fit for the job.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Everyone who supports President Obama and his executive actions on immigration and the ACA needs to think a little farther into the future, when someone they do not support is sitting behind that desk. If it is fine for the current president to use his pen to change laws, then surely it will be fine for all future presidents to act likewise.

What would they say to a future president who decided to completely do away with the federal minimum wage? How about making all drug offenses a capital crime punishable by death? Or makes it illegal to own any vehicle not produced entirely the United States?

Sure, those sound pretty far fetched today, but tomorrow.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ■■EVERETT’S NEW LOGO

Looks more like a wedge of cheese I don’t like this new Everett City logo. (“New Everett logo chosen from 850 entries,” Dec. 5 Herald). This logo is so minimalist, so esoteric. It does not speak to the attributes of Everett or the Northwest for that matter. The artist provided interpretation of a “bow of a ship,” “tail of an airplane” or EVEN “an open book,” never occurred to me upon first sight. Ron Gipson summed it up in The Herald piece that it does not speak to “why people should come to Everett.”

It’s a pretty sterile piece, so I say good luck to the city of Everett in touting the city’s beauty and benefits with this little “wedge of cheese,” “slice of cake” or even “a raised bed planter” (my interpretation).

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Send it to: E-mail: letters@heraldnet.com Mail: Letters section The The Daily Herald P.O. Box 930 Everett, WA 98206 Fax: 425-339-3458 Have a question about letters? Call Carol MacPherson at 425-339-3472 or send an e-mail to letters@heraldnet. com.

A letter in Saturday’s Herald asked where the tea party Republicans were when President Bush launched a war that caused millions to suffer and cost over a trillion dollars, while apparently lauding President Obama’s act of humanity by allowing millions illegal immigrants to stay here, without fear of deportation.

First there was no tea party when the United States Congress, both the House of Representatives and the Senate, voted to give President Bush the authority to enter Iraq and depose President Saddam Hussein. The tea party movement came into political life after President Obama and the Democratcontrolled House and Senate blew up the federal budget.

President Bush did not make

a unilateral decision to invade a foreign country. President Bush approached Congress and made his case. Congress overwhelmingly agreed and gave him the authority to take action.

President Obama on the other hand, has decided numerous times to just ignore Congress whenever he wants something, but cannot get Congress to agree with his viewpoint and give him the authority he wants.

There are no doubt some people in this country who will never support President Obama simply because he is a Democrat. Just as there are some people in this country who never supported President Bush just because he was a Republican. However, everyone should be able to agree that a president should not change established laws to suit the political party occupying

Michael Dahlstrom Everett

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Logo’s design looks like tent

Really? That was the best they could do? (“New Everett logo chosen from 850 entries,” Dec. 5 Herald) I’m no graphic artist, but the new logo for the city of Everett made me immediately think of a homeless person’s pup tent being blown away by the wind. Then again, maybe that is the correct brand identity for Everett.

David Walker Lake Stevens

Unilateral action is dangerous

Mark Schooley Goldendale

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by U.S. for Israel Would someone in our government please explain why we, the U.S., are spending vast sums of money, and putting some of our military in harm’s way, trying to stop ISIS from establishing Islamic states in which non-Muslims will be persecuted and, at the very least, deprived of their civil rights?

But at the same time we support the state of Israel with billions of dollars every year, a state that its prime minister wishes to turn into a “Jewish state,” in which Israeli Arabs and Palestinians will be declared non-citizens. Israel is even thinking of deporting the Arab minority. (Where would they deport them to?) And please, spare me any accusation of anti-semitism. A quick Google query will show that these Israeli Arabs and Palestinians are defined as Semites as well.

Frank Baumann Snohomish

Schwab provides some balance Thank god for Sid Schwab and the Herald for allowing him a platform to straighten out a few of the distorted “truths” from time to time.

Someone has to tackle the complete negativity that we get from syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer every Friday.

I personally find more factually straight news on the “Daily Show” than I do on Fox’s opinionated version. Keep pecking away Sid, and being our voice in the wilderness.

A.P. Semeraro Mukilteo

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Dump ‘Six Chix’ and ‘Wumo’ Please be advised if your intent is to have the lousiest, most unfunny comic page printed in America, you are achieving your goal. Dump “Six Chix” (thankfully not in Sunday’s paper), “Wumo” and “Baby Blues.” These are only funny rarely and probably not again in any of our lifetimes.

The idea to replace one of the funniest strips in America, “The Better Half,” with something as poor and unfunny as “Six Chix” should be a firing offense.

Try “Deflocked,” “The Duplex,” “Shoe” and/or “Better Half,” all head and shoulders above your current level of funny.

Your present comic strip editor needs to re-qualify in funny, because, on a daily basis, your current comic page is not.

Bill & Teresa Swedman Duvall Editor’s note: The “Better Half” comic is no longer available because the artist is retiring.

We need sense of urgency on issues of race

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resident Obama’s observation that racism is “deeply rooted” in U.S. society is an understatement. Racism is as American as the Fourth of July, and ignoring this fact doesn’t make it go away.

These truths, to quote a familiar document, are self-evident. Obama made the remark in an interview EUGENE ROBINSON with Black Entertainment Television, telling the network’s largely African-American audience something it already knew. The president’s prediction that racism “isn’t going to be solved overnight” also came as no surprise.

Right-wing media outlets feigned shock and outrage. But their hearts didn’t seem to be in it. Not after Ferguson and Staten Island. Not after the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland. These recent atrocities prompted Obama’s comments.

“This is something that’s deeply rooted in our society, it’s deeply rooted in our history,” the president said, in excerpts of the interview that were released Sunday.

“When you’re dealing with something as deeply rooted as racism or bias in any society, you’ve got to have vigilance, but you have to recognize that it’s going to take some time, and you just have to be steady so you don’t give up when we don’t get all the way there.”

The election of the first black president in 2008 was an enormous milestone, something I never dreamed would happen in my lifetime. Obama’s re-election four years later was no less significant — a stinging rebuke to those who labored so hard to limit this aberration to one term.

But no one should have expected Obama to magically eliminate racial bias that has been baked into this society since the first Africans were brought to Jamestown in 1619. The stirring words of the Declaration of Independence — “all men are created equal” — were not meant to apply to people who look like me. AfricanAmericans were systematically robbed of their labor, not just before the Civil War but for a century afterward through Jim Crow laws and other racist arrangements. Blacks were deliberately denied opportunities to obtain education and accumulate wealth.

You knew all of this, of course. I recite it here because there are those who would prefer to forget.

A Bloomberg poll released Sunday found that 53 percent of those surveyed believe race relations have worsened “under the first black president,” while only 9 percent believe they have improved. A 2012 Associated Press poll found that 51 percent of Americans had “explicit anti-black attitudes” — up from 48 percent four years earlier, before Obama took office. All this makes me wonder whether, for many people, Obama’s presidency may be serving as an uncomfortable reminder of the nation’s shameful racial history.

Then again, it may be that having a black family in the White House just drives some people around the bend. Why else would a congressional aide viciously attack the president’s daughters, ages 16 and 13, by telling them via Facebook to “dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar”? For some people, it doesn’t matter what the Obamas do or don’t do. Their very presence is inexcusable. There’s something alien about them; their teenaged girls can’t just be seen as teenaged girls.

We already know, from painful experience, how our society looks upon black teenaged boys.

After reminding the nation that racism exists, Obama went on to express optimism. “As painful as these incidents are, we can’t equate what is happening now to what was happening 50 years ago,” he said.

“And if you talk to your parents, grandparents, uncles, they’ll tell you that things are better. Not good, in some cases, but better.”

Of course, that’s true. But it would be a betrayal of the brave men and women who fought and died during the civil rights movement to lose our sense of urgency when so much remains to be done.

U.S. neighborhoods and schools remain shockingly segregated. Jobs have abandoned many inner-city communities. The enormous wealth gap between whites and blacks has increased since the onset of the Great Recession. Black boys and men wear bull’s-eyes on their backs.

Whatever Obama says about race, or doesn’t say about race, somebody’s going to be angry. He should just speak from the heart — and tell the uncomfortable truth.

Eugene Robinson’s email address is eugenerobinson@washpost.com.

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Schoenfeldt has been providing advice to the district since the Oct. 24 cafeteria shootings at Marysville Pilchuck High School. Five freshmen, including the shooter, died of gunshot wounds to the head. A sixth student is recovering from a shattered jaw.

Schoenfeldt last week left her job of nearly eight years with the city of Everett’s Department of Emergency Management. She started Monday in Marysville. She’s been involved in school crisis

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Laughlin didn’t have any criminal history when she was hired in 2006 as the office manager for the newly formed West Coast Weather Stripping. There she forged more than 100 checks and used the company credit card to make personal purchases. The owners told a judge they never suspected that Laughlin would steal from them. They spent time together outside of work, including holidays. In a letter, they wrote that thefts nearly destroyed their small business.

Laughlin was convicted of first-degree theft in 2010 and sentenced to two years in prison. She was ordered to pay back nearly $220,000.

The owners eventually sued Laughlin trying to recover the money. She has not paid it back, court paper said.

Laughlin landed another job in late 2013 at a King County company. She was

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Dave DeHaan, who heads up Everett’s Department of Emergency Management, said Schoenfeldt’s background with school-related tragedies will be an asset in Marysville.

“It is an opportunity to provide all of her experience, a culmination of her life’s efforts,” he said.

In the pre-Internet era, Schoenfeldt began collecting everything she could find on trauma response and recovery.

A few years later, while working in California, she was asked to put together a training session on trauma responses. That led to the California state superintendent’s

office hiring her to develop an emergency response model. It was later adapted by the U.S. Department of Education.

Her work has taken her to more than two dozen schools facing ordeals, including suicides, natural disasters and shootings.

She has been to Louisiana to help reopen schools after Hurricane Katrina and to Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, where 12 students and a teacher were shot and killed in 1999.

Schoenfeldt was drawn to trauma and how people respond to it in the 1980s while working as a noncommissioned community service officer for the

Everett Police Department.

That work included everything from helping people locked out of their cars to supporting victims in crisis. An accidental nonfatal shooting involving several junior high school students heightened her interest. She tried to keep up on their activities in the months and years afterward.

“By following them, I noticed how hard it was to recover from a traumatic incident,” she said.

Schoenfeldt expects that will be the case in Marysville, as well. She knows from other school-related crises that some students will suffer academically.

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hired to work in the office, in charge of creating purchase orders and mailing checks to vendors once they were signed by the owner.

The owner of Advanced Lean Manufacturing learned in January that one of his vendors hadn’t been paid. Bank records show a check originally written to the vendor had been altered and was cashed by Laughlin, court records said. Three other checks meant for vendors also had been forged and deposited in Laughlin’s bank account.

Nearly $5,100 was missing from the company.

Laughlin reportedly told detectives she didn’t know how the checks ended up being written to her.

“She claimed she lived paycheck to paycheck,” the detectives wrote.

Laughlin was fired and told that if she returned, she’d be arrested for trespassing.

Two months later she began working for the Wet Noses Natural Dog Treat Company, a small, family-owned business in Monroe. She processed customer orders and credit

card payments. She didn’t have the authority to write or sign company checks.

In July, a vendor complained about not being paid.

The company’s records showed that the check was written to the vendor and cashed in June. A copy of the check showed, however, that it was written out to Laughlin, according to court documents. She is accused of forging seven checks, totaling about $38,000.

Laughlin was fired and arrested the day after the thefts were discovered.

She told detectives she didn’t know why she forged the checks, prosecutors wrote. She claimed some of the money went to charity and some to people on the streets. Laughlin said she also paid bills with the stolen money.

Snohomish County deputy prosecutor Hal Hupp, who used to lead the office’s identity theft unit, says it’s a good idea to a do a background check on employees no matter how small the company.

The checks are particularly important for anyone who is going to be handling

money, even if they are promoted from within the company, he said.

Court documents don’t say if Laughlin’s recent employers checked her criminal history before hiring her.

Laughlin’s 2010 theft conviction shows up in the Washington State Patrol’s criminal database, which is open to the public.

The database includes all Washington state convictions and arrests within the past year, so long as the information has been provided by the courts or the police department that arrested the suspect, said Deborah Collinsworth, the State Patrol’s identification and criminal history section manager.

The information is available through the state’s public records law. A search can be done online.

“There is a charge, but $10 is minimal when compared to the other costs of hiring and training a new employee, and certainly when compared to the risk or cost of hiring the wrong person,” State Patrol spokesman Bob Calkins said.

and proms, can be difficult. Her role is to provide resources to help students, staff and others affected by the tragedy.

She will be on hand Thursday evening when the district hosts a community meeting to discuss the future of the Marysville Pilchuck cafeteria and to offer advice on holiday stress. The meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at Cedarcrest Middle School, 6400 88th St. Schoenfeldt, 67, had planned to retire from Everett in six months. She agreed to work for the Marysville School District through the 2016 school year.

Within a day of shootings, Marysville schools

Superintendent Becky Berg said she realized Schoenfeldt’s knowledge would be valuable.

“She has just been a godsend,” she said.

Schoenfeldt raised her four children in a house at the corner of Colby Avenue and 18th Street in Everett.

Today, she is a great-grandmother of seven.

She said she has learned to take care of her own needs in stressful times, often by getting her grandchildren to send photos of her great-grandkids.

“I am very proud of all my gray hair,” she said. “I earned every single one of them.”

Eric Stevick: 425-3393446; stevick@heraldnet. com.

Allen gives $100M for cell research The Washington Post Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is donating $100 million of his fortune to launch what he calls an “industrial-scale” effort to understand the basic building block of all living things: the cell.

The funds will go to the creation of a new institute based in Seattle that will construct a comprehensive visual database and predictive model of different types of cells, from cancer-ridden ones to neurons — an effort that Allen said he hopes will help accelerate research into medical treatments and cures around the world.

In a phone interview prior to the announcement of the gift on Monday, Allen said that there has been much research in recent years on genes and how they influence disease, but there is

a gap in knowledge of the intermediate step: How do those genes influence the composition, shape and functioning of cells — the smallest units of life with the ability to replicate independently — and how do those variations affect disease?

“Cells are fundamental to every known human disease. ... If you can get a better understanding of how those cell processes come into focus, that can give you further insight into normal cell functioning and disease states that everyone wants to attack,” Allen said.

Allen said that while someone who is wellversed in computer science has a pretty good sense of the internal workings of a computer, that’s impossible for biological systems. “There is just so much happening that you have to model it to really understand it,” he said.

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Muffler Man on Everett building is one of many across nation

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e’s that tall, handsome man standing on the roof.

Slicked back hair. Blue jeans. Bodacious biceps. Chiseled face. Cocky grin.

The 20-foot fiberglass humanoid has been turning heads on Hewitt Avenue for more than 30 years, wearing the same outfit.

Seriously.

What’s up with this guy?

Why are his hands outstretched? And where’d he get those muscles?

Simple.

He’s a Muffler Man. He’s part of a brotherhood of men cut from the same fiberglass mold. According to Roadside America, what started as a Paul Bunyan character promoting a restaurant in the 1960s led to a California company making a line of Muffler Men holding mufflers to reel in customers.

He was a hit. After all, who could resist those alluring eyes and ripped bod?

It led to copycat statues as well as variants such as dinosaurs and busty women.

Then, neon signage took over.

The manly men were repurposed as soldiers, pirates, cowboys and astronauts, their powerful arms holding everything from rockets and hot dogs to guitars and golf clubs.

Go to Google images of “muffler man” to see the titans with red pants, green jeans, camouflage, suspenders, mustaches, gapped teeth and shirtless.

Make sure to check out the one revamped as a Howdy Doody Man. Want one of your own? There are swag sites selling Muffler Men figurines, bobble-heads and T-shirts that say, “I’m a Muffler Man, Not a Girlie Man.” Our local Muffler Man is a 12th Man during Seahawks season, with a blue flag in his strong hands.

How’d he end up on Hewitt Avenue?

All Boyce Cardell knows is that shortly after he bought the onestory building at 1110 Hewitt Ave. three decades ago, he leased space to a muffler shop that brought along the Muffler Man. There wasn’t room on the sidewalk for the mammoth dude.

“He wanted to put the man on top of the building. I didn’t really want it there to mess up the roof,” Cardell said, “but I put it up there.”

He wired up the giant so as not to tumble.

A few months later, the owner of the muffler shop went bankrupt.

“When he left, he said, ‘He’s yours,’” Cardell said. “I like him up there now.”

Like any man, he needs a little TLC now and then.

“He gets moss on him. I get up there and wash him with a gunny sack and water,” Cardell said. “I need to put something on his head to keep the seagulls from landing on him. I need to have him painted.”

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The tall man known as a Muffler Man on the roof of SSA Marine in Everett is quite the attraction for passersby.

He can have a bit of a seagull problem, though.

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BY ANDREA BROWN More: www.heraldnet.com/ whatsup Ideas? abrown@heraldnet.com or 425-339-3443 He’s still wearing the same paint as when he moved to the Hewitt ’hood.

For the past 25 years or so, the building has been occupied by SSA Marine, a stevedoring office that hires longshoreman to load and unload ships. The tall man makes it an easy place to find.

Is he a Muffler Man? How to tell a real Muffler Man from an imposter: n Knock on a fiberglass leg to see if it’s hollow. n The left palm faces down, right palm faces up with an open grasp. n His blocky shoes measure about 4 feet. n Eyes may appear to stare blankly into the middle distance or may be painted to leer down at visitors. n Crack a beer bottle over this guy’s noggin and he won’t be fazed.

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Most people pop by out of curiosity.

Sheryl Miller has worked the front desk at SSA Marine for 24 years, so she sees the tall

man’s fan club in action outside the window.

“If I had a dollar for every time I saw somebody stop to take a picture I could retire,” she said.

By Elizabeth Mayhew It’s that time of year again: the mad rush to get the house decorated, presents bought and — for me, the most dreaded of all — the addressing and mailing of the family’s annual holiday photo card. You might just tell me to skip it, but that would let down relatives and friends who, even in this overexposed, picture-sharing world, may get a glimpse of our family only from that one mailing. All the more reason that I like my family’s card to be special.

I want it to reflect our family’s

design sense and to complement whichever photo we select. Fortunately, in this digital age, there are dozens of sites to choose from that offer a variety of designs.

Here are five of my best cardordering tips, plus a list of my favorite online sources.

Card tricks Get going now. Many companies have early print order deadlines for holiday cards, so the sooner you get your order in, the better. If you order now, you will also have more time to get your cards out; you can break up

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Consult your address book before you shop so you know the right number of cards to order.

Now is the time to edit and pare down your list.

Be aware that some square or oversized cards need more postage because they must to be hand-sorted by the Postal Service.

Make sure you proof the card copy. Companies may charge more to send a proof, but would you rather save a penny or have a misprint?

If you have trouble getting the entire family in one good photo,

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oday skiing is safer than ever. In the past 30 years, improved ski boots and bindings have cut down on injuries. Once common ankle sprains and broken lower leg bones have become rare.

But equipment can only do so much. Despite advances in technology, serious knee sprains have risen, and hand and shoulder injuries continue unabated. Thousands of Americans still get injured while skiing each year.

So enjoy whizzing down the slopes this winter. But play it safe with these precautions.

Get in shape before you ski. About six to eight weeks ahead of hitting the mountain start preseason conditioning.

Some fitness or community centers offer ski-ready classes.

Class or no, though, first get your health care provider’s OK if you’re not used to exercising. Generally recommended activities include: n Aerobic workouts like hill walking, stair climbing, jumping jacks and jump rope can help build stamina and prevent fatigue. n Strengthening your abdominal muscles with bent knee curl-ups helps avoid low back strain. Likewise, lunges, leg extensions and hamstring curls can tone muscles that support your knees. n Stretching exercises aid agility for turning and twisting on the slopes.

Use proper gear & technique. Make sure a certified ski professional regularly checks and adjusts your skis, boots and poles. Consider donning a helmet for safety.

And invest in ski lessons if you’re new to the sport.

Give your body what it needs. While skiing drink lots of water and snack frequently.

Avoid fatty meals, alcohol and drugs. Dress in layers to protect against dampness and cold. And wear sun block and sunglasses.

Know when to quit. Accidents peak right before lunch and at the end of the day. So take a break when you’re tired to avoid injury.

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Hi Carolyn: I’m a 19-year-old college student. I attend a university close to home and often visit home on the weekends because I value my relationships with my family (especially my much-younger siblings). I will likely have to live at home during the next school year for financial reasons. My brother is ... well, a teenager. He’s often extremely mean to my parents. In particular, he gets angry at them and says they’re awful/horrible/he hates them when they are strict about his grades and schoolwork (which I have come to realize is genuinely loving and kindly meant).

Worse, he’s extremely dismissive and angry when my mother gives him presents (something she loves to do). Every time he does this, he makes her cry, scaring my other siblings (ages 9 and 6) and infuriating me.

Logically, I understand that it’s hormones, that the teenage years are challenging, and all that. Emotionally, though, I can’t handle this. Not only do I get angry at him in the midst of the situation (making the whole thing worse), I have trouble forgiving him or treating him kindly even later. How can I get over this so that I still care

CAROLYN HAX TELL ME ABOUT IT about my brother at the end of it?

— Teenager From the safe and comfortable distance of my desk, the problem here seems to be that your mother is trying to raise your brother the way she raised you, when he’s a different kind of kid. If nothing else, she needs to lay off the gifts; making herself feel better is a lousy priority for a parent to have, especially when she is in possession of solid data that her actions are making her son feel worse.

This observation is about as relevant to your situation as broadcasters’ play-by-play is to the outcome of a game, but it seems worth mentioning.

Plus, your mother is the adult and so, presumably, more capable of hearing constructive suggestions from a bystander to her drama with her son. Talk to your mom, and float the idea that while

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Saudi Arabia. 3. Tunisia. 4. Milan, Italy. 5. Cognac. 6. The Channel Islands. 7. Bolivia (Simon Bolivar). 8. Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. 9. Massachusetts.

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Actor Kirk Douglas is 98. Actor Dick Van Patten is 86. Actor-writer Buck Henry is 84. Actress Dame Judi Dench is 80. Actor Beau Bridges is 73.

Jazz singer-musician Dan Hicks is 73. Football Hall-of-Famer Dick Butkus is 72. Actor Michael Nouri is 69. Former Sen. Thomas Daschle, DS.D., is 67. World Golf Hall of Famer Tom Kite is 65. Singer Joan Armatrading is 64. Actor Michael Dorn is 62. Actor John Malkovich is 61. Country singer Sylvia is 58. Singer Donny Osmond is 57.

Rock musician Nick Seymour (Crowded House) is 56. Comedian Mario Cantone is 55. Actor David Anthony Higgins is 53. Actor Joe Lando is 53. Actress Felicity Huffman is 52. Crown Princess Masako of Japan is 51. Country musician Jerry Hughes (Yankee Grey) is 49. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is 48. Rock singer-musician Thomas Flowers (Oleander) is 47. Rock musician Brian Bell (Weezer) is 46.

Thought for today: “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher (1844-1900).

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you benefitted from your parents’ child-rearing methods, maybe Brother needs to be handled in a different way.

And then — at the risk of inducing advisory whiplash — please find a way to get yourself out of the middle of this. If there’s no way you can avoid living at home, then make the campus your center of emotional gravity, and treat your home time as a means to an end.

This battle between brother and parents is not your battle to fight, and so being this invested emotionally is not good for you.

There are ways to stay involved without getting sucked in — for example, taking your younger sibs outside/to the store/anywhere else when you feel an argument coming on. It will be difficult, but if you prepare ahead of time to draw certain lines on how you will and won’t get involved, then that will make it easier for you to stay off to the side where you belong.

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Prescription drug use concerns teen Dear Abby: What are the signs of prescription drug abuse? How would you suggest a young person like me (I am 13) confront a close family member about something like this, especially since I’m not sure?

I found an antidepressant prescribed for my mother.

As long as I can remember, she has been an upbeat person. I have no reason to suspect she’s depressed. I’m worried she may be abusing the medication. — Worried Teen In Boston Dear Worried Teen: Perhaps it will lessen your fears to know that antidepressants are sometimes prescribed not only for depression, but also to help people with sleep problems and other conditions.

You have reached an age when it is important for teens to be able to talk to their parents about any concerns they may have, and you should talk to your mom about this.

Dear Abby: You once wrote that you were allowed to read anything growing up. We can all use good advice and be prepared when we encounter difficult situations.

I took that to heart and decided my children should read your column with me instead of my lecturing/instructing them about life. So now they take turns reading the questions aloud. We have a group discussion, and we all give our answers to the questions before we read your answers. If all of our answers are different, we have a new discussion.

I love it because of the topics that come up. My children are learning how to reason, and that people from all walks of life have problems and need help.

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DEAR ABBY children realize that it’s OK to ask for help, and they shouldn’t worry or feel ashamed to ask in any situation. Your column is a great parenting tool for me and my husband. — Mrs. M. In San Diego Dear Mrs. M.: My column may be a useful teaching tool, but you and your husband are using it wisely. While not everyone may agree with everything that’s printed in my column, the discussions it often generates are helpful for sharing ideas and clarifying values. This kind of communication brings families closer together.

Dear Abby: My fiance and I recently got engaged, and I was thrilled when he got down on one knee with my great-grandmother’s ring. While I love both the ring and the idea that we saved a lot of money we can now put toward our wedding, I can tell he feels awkward when wellwishers congratulate him on having selected such a pretty and expensive ring. What’s the best way to respond to these comments and make my fiance feel like he did a great job?

— Vintage-Loving Bride Dear VLB: It isn’t necessary to discuss the history of the ring with everyone who comments. Because you know your fiance is sensitive about it, just smile and say thank you.

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Robert Groeschell, director of elementary education, Office of the State Superintendent, would give the principal address on Sept. 13. at the formal dedication of the new Jefferson Elementary School in Eastmont. The old Jefferson School building was destroyed earlier to make way for the new Post Office.

NEW YORK — When they’re offstage, members of The Temptations and The Four Tops — two of Motown’s most iconic groups — have nothing but love for each other. It’s a different story when the microphones are turned on.

“We’re very competitive,” said Abdul “Duke” Fakir, of the Four Tops. “That’s the way Motown was built. Basically we competed all the while. But we competed in a wonderful way — brother against brother.”

Fakir and Otis Williams, his opposite number in The Temptations, will be renewing their rivalry for the best tunes

25 years ago (1989) For the second year in a row Rick and Shannon Adkins threw caution and their electricity bill to the wind, transforming their home at 7002 Carson Rd. into a winter wonderland. The house was bedecked with 5,000 twinkling Christmas lights and not a bit of plastic. Other lights were popular too, both on land and sea. Everett Transit was sponsoring the Holiday Light Tour. The Everett Yacht Club was sponsoring a boat parade that go as far as Mukilteo and back. The Edmonds Yacht Club was, too, with boats going to Brown’s Bay and back.

By Jack O’Donnell from Herald archives at the Everett Public Library.

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 9, the 343rd day of 2014. There are 22 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight: On Dec. 9, 1854, Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s famous poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” was published in England.

On this date: In 1608, English poet John Milton was born in London.

In 1911, an explosion inside the Cross Mountain coal mine near Briceville, Tennessee, killed 84 workers. (Five were rescued.)

In 1940, British troops opened their first major offensive in

“The Newsroom” is set to end next week after a six-episode third season, and at first, it appeared it might go out quietly: A lunatic billionaire taking over the ACN cable network; anchor Will McAvoy (Emmy winner Jeff Daniels) in jail for refusing to give up a source who leaked confidential documents; Jim and Maggie coupling up again.

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What is exercise physiology?

It’s the study of the body processes we use when we participate in any kind of physical activity. Scientists in the field also examine how exercise can reduce or reverse progression of a variety of diseases.

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start at $1.49 each and take two to three business days to process, followed by three to five days for regular economy shipping. Also worth noting are some of Pinhole Press’s other gift offerings, such as photo jigsaw puzzles and a clever photo memory game.

Lots of options: www.tinyprints.com and www.shutterfly.com Tiny Prints, the upscale cousin of Shutterfly, has just this season introduced premium laser-cut, letterpressed or foil-stamped cards, offering several designs and colors in each category. The ordering process is simple and delivery is quick, especially considering the complexity of the designs: You can get the cards in two days if you are willing to pay for their “Super Rush Plus,� about $40. If you have more time, the company offers free standard shipping on orders of more than $49.

Premium cards range from

$1.99 to $3.19 each, with less expensive designs ranging from $1.24 to $1.59.

If you have a tighter budget, head to Shutterfly for cards that start at 40 cents each.

The woodsy look: www. nightowlpapergoods.com Alabama-based Night Owl Paper Goods offers flat cards that are printed on eco-friendly, sustainably harvested birch wood veneer. You can personalize the cards with photos and/or a greeting on one side and either a pattern or a mini calendar on the other. With prices ranging from $2.25 to $3 per wood card, they are definitely a splurge. If you like the look of the real wood but not the price, you can order the same design on paper for $1.25 to $1.99 per card.

After you have placed your order online, a designer will tweak your card, then e-mail you a digital proof within 24 hours. Once you approve the design, wood cards will ship within eight business days, paper cards within six.

For the hipster-design lover: www.minted.com Minted offers a ton of design variations ranging

from the humorous and quirky to the sweet and sentimental. The company has distinguished itself as a promoter of young designers and regularly hosts design competitions, featuring the winners on the site. New this year are Booklettes, which consist of eight pages of photos and text, and Minibooks, which consist of seven pages of customizable photos and text; both are stylish versions of an annual newsletter. The Booklettes cost $2.28 each and the Minibooks cost $3.44 each, and neither requires extra postage. As for shipping, Minted has a handy form that estimates your shipping based on your order date, but assume if you approve your proof in one day, you will get your order two to five business days after.

Preppy couture: www.iomoi.com Cards with a distinctly “designer� look make Iomoi stand out. They are printed on heavy cardstock and come with coordinating hand-lined envelopes.

Photos need to be applied separately, but for an extra

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charge (20 photos for $10), the company will print your photo for you on glossy photo paper. These are among the most expensive cards — anywhere from $4.40 to $4.90 each — but as with all the companies, the more you order the less each card costs. Iomoi ships via the Postal Service, so allow three to eight business days for shipping.

If you are a traditionalist: www.williamarthur. com and www.crane.com William Arthur claims to have produced the first photo card in 1987. Of course, that was before digital printing, when photos had to be printed, then individually mounted on each card. Today both William Arthur and sister company Crane & Co. offer digital versions of their classic designs. Or if you are a die-hard traditionalist, you can order the personalized cards and mount your own 4-by-6 photo on their card’s pre-taped front. Designs mostly consist of simple band, scroll or ribbon-like hand-engraved borders, and you have many fonts, ink and envelope linings to choose from.

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Email us your resume to: hreast@sound publishing.com ATTN: HR/GWP or to apply in person, visit us at 11323 Commando Rd., Suite 1 in Everett. Sound Publishing Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) and strongly suppor ts diversity in the workplace. Visit our website to learn more about us! www.soundpublishing.com

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REPORTER The Grays Harbor Publishing Group on Grays Harbor, Wash., has an opening for a full-time reporter with an emphasis on local sports writing. We’re looking for someone to produce clear, brightly written high school prep spor ts stories relevant to real people reading us in print, on our website and in social media. Ability to take photos is necessary, as is familiarity with social media.

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The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, both written and oral, and excel in dealing daily with internal as well as external contacts. Must be computer-proficient and internet savvy, and have an exceptional marketing and sales background; print media experience is a definite plus. Must engage prospective clients with Sound’s capabilities and customize the message to secure new business as well as grow existing business.

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NO. 87-2-05053-8 NOTICE OF AMENDMENT TO ORDER DISSOLVING CORPORATION (CLERK’S ACTION REQUIRED) SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY IN THE MATTER OF THE DISSOLUTION OF 21 OAKS HOME ASSOCIATION, a Washington non-profit corporation., TO: All owners of the following lots in the following divisions of Puget Park, all located in Snohomish County, State of Washington who were owners of record on October 14, 1987: Lots 1-108 inclusive, Puget Park Division 1 as recorded in Volume 34 of Plats, beginning at page 86, records of Snohomish County, State of Washington; Lots 1-56 inclusive, plat of Puget Park Division 2, as recorded in Volume 34 of Plats, beginning at page 88, records of Snohomish County, State of Washington; Lots 1-189 inclusive, plat of Puget Park Division 3, as recorded in Volume 3 of Plats, beginning at page 20, records of Snohomish County, State of Washington; AND TO: All other owners or parties in interest who had an interest in said real property as of October 14, 1987 and 21 Oaks Home Association, a dissolved corporation.

You and each of you will please take notice as follows: SLA Properties, LLC, has filed an application with the Superior Cour t of the State of Washington in the above named and numbered matter requesting that the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law (Dkt. No. 9), Order Dissolving the Corporation pursuant to RCW 24.06.300 (Dkt. No. 10), and Order Amending O r d e r D i s s o l v i n g C o r p o ra t i o n ( D k t . N o. 1 8 ) b e a m e n d e d .

Additional requests, if any, are stated in the application.

Each party with an interest in this matter must serve a written response to the undersigned attorney of record at the address stated below and must file a copy of the response with the aboveentitled court. If you do not serve your written response within sixty days after the date of the first publication of this notice, the court may enter an order amending the order dissolving this corporation and disposing of the corporation’s assets in accordance with the requests of SLA Properties, LLC and without further notice to you and may enter an order approving or providing for other relief as requested in the application for amendment. This matter shall be heard on Friday, February 6, 2015 at 9:30 a.m. on the Judge’s Civil Motions Calendar of the Superior Cour t of Washington for Snohomish County.

Date of first publication: November 25, 2014 Presented By: Peterson Russell Kelly PLLC By: /s/ Joshua D. Brittingham, WSBA #42061, Attorneys for Petitioner SLA Properties, LLC, Peterson Russell Kelly PLLC, 1850 Skyline Tower 10900 NE Fourth Street Bellevue, WA 98004-8341 Telephone: (425) 462-4700 Published: November 25; December 2, 9, 2014.

EDH602172

Some or all of the agencies participating in the Shared Procurement Portal may use the roster to select businesses for public agency contracts. In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78 Stat. 252, 42 USC 2000d to 2000d-4 and Title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, Department of Transportation, Subtitle A, Office of the Secretary, Part 21, Nondiscrimination in Federally-Assisted Programs of the Department of Transportation issued pursuant to such Act, hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively ensure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, disadvantaged business enterprises as defined at 49 CFR Part 26 will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against in the grounds of race, color, national origin, or sex in consideration for an award.

In addition, the selected contractor, with regard to the work performed during the contract, shall affirmatively support non-discrimination practices, including in the selection and retention of subcontractors and in the procurement of material and equipment.

Any person who believes they have been aggrieved by an unlawful discriminatory practice under Title VI has a right to file a formal complaint. For more information contact the specific agency.

Published: December 9, 2014.

EDH604308

The Cities of Bellevue, Bothell, Issaquah, Kenmore, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Redmond, Renton, Sammamish, Shoreline, Snoqualmie, Woodinville, along with Capitol Hill Housing, Cascade Water Alliance, East Pierce Fire and Rescue, Jefferson Transit, King County Library System, NORCOM, Pacific Hospital PDA, Sammamish Plateau Water & Sewer District, and Woodinville Fire and Life Safety are now accepting applications from contractors, consultants and vendors to the Shared Procurement Portal (SPP), Roster program. Additional government agencies may join the Shared Procurement Portal.

The Shared Procurement Portal (SPP) roster includes businesses representative of Small Works (RCW 39.04.155), Professional Services/Architecture & Engineering (RCW 39.80.030), General Services, Legal Services , and Information Technology.

Interested companies may apply at any time, by visiting our website at sharedprocurementportal.com and selecting the Vendor Registration button. For questions, call 425-452-6918 or email egovsupport@ecitygov.net. Applicants currently approved on the SPP roster are reminded to update their application at this time and to upload a new Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) if you have not done so in the past year.

#JET 3'2 T 3'1 T ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids for the following Contract will be received by Alderwood Water & Wastewater District (District) at the District’s Administration Building, 3626 156th St. SW, Lynnwood, WA 98087, until the time and date stated below.

Contract Title: Lift Station 5 Trailer Mounted Diesel Centrifugal Pump Contract Number: S1015 CP Bid Due Date/Time: December 19, 2014/ 10:00AM Cost Estimate: $90,000.00 Bids received after such date and time will not be considered.

Bidders accept all risks of late delivery, regardless of fault. Bids properly received will be publicly opened and read at the District’s Administration Building. Bids will be evaluated by the District to determine which bid is the lowest, responsive bid by a responsible Bidder.

Scope of Work: This Contract is limited to the purchase, delivery and testing and commissioning support of a trailer mounted diesel centrifugal pump.

Bids s hall be submitted in acc ordance with the Contrac t Documents. District reserves the right to reject any bid, any portion of any bid and/or to reject all bids. District further reserves the right, but without obligation, to waive informalities and irregularities.

No bid will be considered unless accompanied by a bid guaranty (certified or cashier’s check, surety bond or postal money order) payable to the Alderwood Water & Wastewater District in an amount not less than five percent (5%) of the Total Bid Price.

Request bid documents and placement on the Plan Holders List via email from Amy Johannes, amyj@awwd.com.

All questions regarding this solicitation shall be directed to District’s Project Representative: Brigitte McCarty, Project Engineer, at 425743-7605, or e-mail BMcCarty@awwd.com.

Published: December 2, 9, 2014.

EDH603110

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NO. 14-4-01710-9 NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH In re the Estate of: LORETTA MABEL WARD Deceased.

The Personal Representative named below has been appointed and has qualified as personal representative of this estate. Persons having claims against the deceased must, prior to the time such claims would be barred by a ny o t h e r w i s e a p p l i c a bl e statute of limitations, serve their claims on the personal representative or the attor neys of record at the address state below and file a n exe c u t e d c o py o f t h e claim with the Clerk of this Court within four months after the date of first publication of t h i s n o t i c e o r w i t h i n fo u r months after the date of filing of the copy of this notice with the Clerk of this Cour t, whichever is later or, except under those provisions included in RCW 11.40.011 or RCW 11.40.013, the claim will be forever barred. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

DATE OF FILING COPY OF N OT I C E TO C R E D I TO R S with Clerk of the Court: December 9, 2014.

DATES OF PUBLICATION: 12/09/2014, 12/16/2014, 12/23/2014 Dated: December 5, 2014.

Respectfully Submitted by: BRIAN L. DUCE, WSBA24613 Attorney for Estate Co-Personal Representatives: Brad Schoenberg Ferrier and Jana Lei Schoenberg Address: 12212 51st Ave NE Marysville, WA 98271 Attorney for Estate: BRIAN L. DUCE Address: 1701 Grove Street Marysville, WA 98270 Telephone: (360) 659-9210 Published: December 9, 16, 23, 2014.

EDH604565

NO. 14-4-06639-0 SEA NONPROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.42.030) SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR KING COUNTY Nonprobate Estate of RAY E. PEDERSEN, Deceased.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE A s N o t i c e A g e n t , I h ave elected to give notice to Decedent’s creditors.

On the date of filing of this Nonprobate Notice to Creditors with the Court: * I had no knowledge of: * Any other person acting as Notice Agent, or * The appointment of a Personal Representative for Decedent’s probate estate in the state of Washington. * According to the records of the Court that were then available: * No cause number regarding Decedent had been issued to any other Notice Agent, and * No Personal Representative of Decedent’s probate estate had been appointed.

Any person having a claim against Decedent must present the claim: * Before the time when the claim would be barred by any applicable statute of limitations, and * In the manner provided in RCW 11.42.070: * By filing with the Court the original of the signed Creditor’s Claim, and * By serving upon or mailing by first class mail to me at the address provided below a copy of the signed Creditor’s Claim.

The Creditor’s Claim must be presented by the later to occur of: * Thirty (30) days after I served or mailed this Notice to you as provided in RCW 11.42.020(2)(c),or * Four (4) months after the date of first publication of this Notice.

If the Creditor’s Claim is not presented within the foregoing time period, the claim

will be forever barred except as provided in RCW 11.42.050 and 11.42.060.

T h i s b a r i s e f fe c t i ve fo r claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

In accordance with RCW 9A.72.085, I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Washington that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.

SIGNED DIANNE F. PEDERSEN Notice Agent Date: On November 7, 2014 Place: At Kirkland, Washington Address for Mailing or Service: Gregorek and Associates, PLLC 10604 NE 38th Place, #225 Kirland, WA 98033-7931 Date of First Publication of this Notice: 11/25/14 EDH602104 Published: November 25; December 2, 9, 2014.

ABANDONED VEHICLES AUCTION MACK’S TOWING In accordance with the Revised Code of Washington ( R C W 4 6 . 5 5 . 1 3 0 ) , M a ck ’s Towing #5099 will sell to the highest bidder the following vehicles on 12/13/2014 at 12:00 p.m. Prior inspection will be from 11:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. This company can be contacted at 360-568-3131 for questions regarding this auction. The sale location is 1701 1st Street, Snohomish.

‘04 VW Jetta ACR3576 ‘91 Honda Civic 384ZRP ‘96 Chevrolet 3500 B24987Y ‘83 Toyota Camry AHB8527 Published: December 9, 2014.

EDH604599 LANDLORD LIEN SALE 1970 Bonvl 57/20 Mobile Home, 12/10/14 @ 2:00 P.M. Carriage Club Estates Mobile Home Park, 13320 Hwy. 99 S., Everett, WA. Sp. 39.

Published: December 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 2014.

EDH603923

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PREP ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Zach Hatch Glacier Peak | Boys Basketball

The junior scored 29 points and made eight 3-pointers is a season-opening victory over Snohomish last Tuesday and chipped in 13 points and three more 3s in a win over Jackson on Friday as the Grizzlies finished the first week of the season 2-0.

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Gabrielle Grandbois Marysville Getchell | Girls Basketball

The sophomore scored 24 points in a season-opening victory over Cascade, 18 in a win over Mariner and 22 in a blowout over Granite Falls.

Grandbois’ strong start to the season has helped the Chargers to a 3-0 record.

Winning isn’t everything Despite the tremendous success enjoyed by the Lake Stevens wrestling program over the years, results are not the Vikings’ primary focus

By Brian Adamowsky

TUESDAY, 12.09.2014

Herald Writer

LAKE STEVENS — For as much winning as the Lake Stevens wrestling program has done in coach Brent Barnes’ tenure with the Vikings, he insists that he and his staff talk very little about winning and losing in the practice room.

“Our overall philosophy is not about winning and losing,” he said.

“We don’t allow that to get in the way of getting better and enjoying the sport. We’re very careful about the vocabulary we use with the kids and try to get them to live in the moment and develop camaraderie.”

It certainly has paid dividends in terms of trophies.

Lake Stevens won the Class 4A team title at Mat Classic last season for the second consecutive season and has topped the state’s largest classification six times since 2005-06 and nine times since 1998-99.

The squad that is aiming for a third consecutive team title this season will be headlined by junior

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Michael Soler, who is looking for a personal three-peat to go along with the team’s, and senior Cody Vigoren, also a returning state champion.

Soler would become Lake Stevens’ first three-time state champion since Josh Heinzer (2008-2010) should he conquer the field at 132 pounds.

It will be a sizable jump in weight class for Soler, who competed at 106 pounds as a freshman and 113 last year as a sophomore.

“I’m not too worried about it,” said Soler, whose older brother Eric won a pair of state titles for the Vikings. “I wasn’t trying to go up in weight, but I grew and spent a lot of time in the weight room this summer. I’ll be able to do the same things I would normally do at the higher weight.”

Barnes said Soler’s insatiable desire to improve and learn the craft of wrestling have served him well in his first two seasons at Lake Stevens.

“He’s a true student of the sport, and you’re not going to find

anyone who enjoys the process more than Michael Soler,” Barnes said. “Moving up to 132 will be another challenge for him, but he’s been dealing with pressure and expectations his whole life. He’s a competitor and a gamer. He knows that you win some and lose some, and he’ll have opportunities beyond high school wrestling.”

Vigoren, who will wrestle at 195 pounds again this season but may occasionally bump up to 220 if the team needs him to, already has secured his wrestling future, signing with the University of Wyoming for next season. A longtime wrestler and baseball player, Vigoren only recently dedicated himself to the mat year-round.

“He’s really coming into his own,” Barnes said of Vigoren. “He’s so physical, and such a great leader with great character.”

Vigoren said that wrestling in such a tradition-rich program as Lake Stevens doesn’t add any extra pressure to whatever he already puts on himself, but provides

Wrestlers to watch

Alex Rodorigo | Sr. 126 pounds | Lake Stevens Rodorigo is the latest in his family to be a team captain at Lake Stevens, following in the footsteps of his older brother Ryan and two of his uncles, Cully and Chris Pratt. Now Alex is a co-captain for the 2014-15 edition of the Vikings alongside Cody Vigoren, and it is very important to him to help make the team a family in its pursuit of a third consecutive Class 4A state team title.

“If we get to know each other really well and push each other, it will be easier for us to reach our goals,” Rodorigo said. “The individual titles are great, but the team title is something that everyone remembers.”

Lake Stevens coach Brent Barnes said Rodorigo is best from the top position, and he will be working on wrestling from his feet this season.

“He’s a talented kid. A lot of it is mental with him, just believing he can do it and being stingy

benchmarks for the future.

“I don’t really look at it as extra pressure but as something to look forward to,” he said.

Vigoren would like to work on getting to opponents’ legs more this year, and being able to do so will widen his repertoire of moves when he’s wrestling on his feet.

“I want to be able to take down anyone,” he said.

The Vikings finished third over the weekend at the prestigious Sidney Eagle Invitational in Montana, placing behind the hosts and Poway High School of California.

Barnes has put together a very competitive schedule for the Vikings that will see them wrestle dual meets against Class 4A powers Moses Lake and Tahoma, as well as out-of-state programs such as Hermiston (Ore.).

Lake Stevens also will compete at the Doc Buchanan Invitational in Clovis, Calif. on Jan. 9-10, an event Barnes called one of the top five tournaments in the United States.

go with anyone on his feet where his athleticism can shine.”

Iversen said Page’s athleticism allows him to take chances most wrestlers wouldn’t, and that he is at his very best in scramble situations.

Drew Hatch | Sr. 182 pounds | Marysville Pilchuck

Jeremy Nygard | Jr. 132 pounds | Arlington

After placing third at 106 pounds as a Class 4A competitor last season, Nygard is making the jump all the way to 132 for the bulk of his junior season.

Eagles coach Rick Iversen said Nygard likely will drop to 126 for the postseason, but won’t have to struggle all season to make that lower weight, and Arlington is high on freshman Gavin Rork at 126.

Iversen said Nygard, who has traveled to national tournaments and camps in the offseason and would like to enter the national pipeline following high school, is best on his feet thanks to a great deal of freestyle experience.

“That cost him a little bit last year because he couldn’t get off the bottom,” Iversen said. “We’re working really hard on that this year, because we don’t think anyone can take him down. And if you can’t take him down or hold him down, you can’t beat him.”

In stark contrast to Page’s scrambling ability and penchant for the spectacular, Hatch is a classic grinder.

“He just wears opponents out,” Craig Iversen said.

“He has a great feel to pin and has done an incredible amount of wrestling since he was very young. We just need to get Drew healthy and back to where he can keep matches going with his conditioning, but he can grind with anyone.”

Hatch also has placed at Mat Classic in each of the past three seasons and is looking to cap his high school career with a state championship.

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Jeremy Nygard of Arlington placed third at 106 pounds at last season’s Class 4A state tournament.

He moves up to 132 pounds this year.

with points,” Barnes said.

Killian Page | Sr. 170 pounds | Marysville Pilchuck On the heels of a hugely successful football season that saw the Tomahawks reach the 3A state semifinals, Page will try to place at Mat Classic for the fourth time — only this time at the top of the podium.

Marysville Pilchuck coach Craig Iversen said once Page gets past his lingering injuries from football and gets into wrestling shape, he’ll be a contender for a state championship thanks to a free-wheeling style that draws greatly on Page’s substantial athletic gifts.

“You don’t get that level of athlete very often in the wrestling room,” Iversen said of Page. “He’s great on big moves and big throws, and I’ve never seen a wrestler with his balance before. He needs to work on wrestling from underneath a little bit more, but he can

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Cody Vigoren (left) spars with Marquise Postlewaite during a Lake Stevens wrestling practice on Monday.

Ely Malametz | Sr. 170 pounds | Cedarcrest First-year Cedarcrest coach Mark Ward is counting on Malametz’s technical ability to carry the senior to a second consecutive state championship, even after moving up in weight class.

“I’ve been around wrestling a long time, and Ely is one of the more gifted high school wrestlers I’ve seen,” said Ward, who wrestled collegiately at Southern Illinois and is returning to coaching after a decade away from the sport. “He’s really slick, and he really knows his style of wrestling. He has a lot of determination to get back up on that podium this year, and I think his style is going to be better at 170 than it was at 160.”

Malametz’s speed and skill play bigger in the higher weight classes, where technical wrestling tends to take a slight back seat to brute force.

“His technique is flawless from his feet, and I think he’s just going to blow by a lot of kids,” Ward said. “But like any high school kid, conditioning is a big part of wrestling and being up a weight class will be tougher for him. Moving around kids that are 10 pounds bigger doesn’t seem like a lot, but it really is. We’ll have to bring his conditioning up to a higher level.”

Brian Adamowsky, Herald Writer

The senior was the only local champion at the White River Classic, winning the 182-pound division. Bergesen and the Seagulls are off to a 4-0 start this season.

The Athletes of the Week are selected by The Herald sports staff with input from area coaches.

POWER POLL The Herald’s weekly high school basketball power poll for area boys and girls teams, with the team name and total points.

Boys 1. Stanwood 44(2) 2. Glacier Peak 41(1) 3. Marysville Pilchuck 39 4. Arlington 38 5. King’s 32 6. Kamiak 30 7. Cascade 28 8. Mountlake Terrace 23 9. Mariner 18 t-10. Snohomish 17 t-10. Arch. Murphy 17 12. Shorewood 14 13. Shorecrest 6 t-14. Ed.-Woodway 4 t-14. Jackson 4

Girls 1. Lynnwood 45(3) 2. Glacier Peak 41 3. Arlington 40 t-4. Lake Stevens 33 t-4. Snohomish 33 t-6. Ed.-Woodway 30 t-6. Kamiak 30 8. Stanwood 22 t-9. King’s 18 t-9. Shorecrest 18 11. Monroe 15 12. Marysville Getchell 14 13. Shorewood 8 14. Arch. Murphy 7 15. Everett 6

TONIGHT’S GAME

Everett at Tri-City, 7:05 p.m.

Voters: Herald writers David Krueger and Aaron Lommers, and Steve Willits of Sound Live Sports Network.

For their individual votes, visit www.heraldnet.com.

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Leehahl back on the ice

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The Silvertips’ Dawson Leedahl, who has been sidelined nearly two months because of a knee injury, could play in Everett’s final two games before the Christmas break.

By Nick Patterson Herald writer

having all of his players back, aside from defensive tackle Brandon Mebane, but how much better individuals can function when the team around them is at full strength.

“I think it’s more the chemistry of the guys playing together

EVERETT — He may have wore a red no-contact jersey, and he may have been deployed as an extra body on defense instead of preparing in his usual position on the left wing.

Nevertheless, Dawson Leedahl is back on his skates again, and both he and the Everett Silvertips are thrilled that the time remaining before Leedahl returns to game action is now being counted in weeks instead of months.

Leedahl has returned to practice on a limited basis following nearly two months on the sidelines because of a knee injury, and there’s a possibility he’ll be back in games before the Christmas break arrives.

“It’s good (being back on the ice),” an out-of-breath Leedahl said following Monday’s practice at Xfinity Arena. “It’s a lot more tiring than I remember.”

Leedahl, an 18-year-old who’s in his third season with the Tips, is a key member of Everett’s forward corps. Last season he had 32 points (eight goals, 24 assists) in 70 games, and he plays an important role both because of his defensive abilities as a forward and his physical presence.

But Leedahl went down with a right knee injury during Everett’s 3-2 overtime victory at Spokane on Oct. 18. Initial scans revealed damage to the medial collateral ligament in his knee, and it was feared Leedahl would require surgery and miss four-to-six months.

However, a second opinion was solicited, and it was determined the damage was not as severe as originally diagnosed.

Leedahl was told to rest the knee and let it heal on its own. The rest seems to have done the trick. “(The knee) feels good,” Leedahl said. “I can’t really feel it out there. The knee brace kind of makes me a little less mobile, but I’m getting used to it.”

Leedahl was relieved that the second opinion came back with a

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Seahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner (54), who missed several games with a toe injury, has played a key role in Seattle’s improved defense.

Swagger is back

Seahawks defense is playing as it did during Super Bowl season

By John Boyle Herald Writer

RENTON — The Seattle Seahawks defense is back, that much became clear over the past three games as they held the Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers and most recently — and impressively — the Philadelphia

Eagles to each team’s lowest point and yardage totals of the season.

And there are plenty of reasons to explain Seattle’s defensive improvements. From the team’s improving health — most notably the return of middle linebacker Bobby Wagner from a five-game absence and the

improved health of strong safety Kam Chancellor, who limped through the first half of the season before missing two games — to the now famous clear-theair team meeting that occurred before the Arizona game.

What stands out most to Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll about his defense is not just

Ondriezek steps down as Mariner football coach

By Kevin Brown and Aaron Lommers Herald Writers

JENNIFER BUCHANAN / THE HERALD

Mariner head football coach John Ondriezek recently announced his resignation. Ondriezek had coached the Marauders since 1993.

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For the first time in more than two decades, Mariner High School finds itself in the market for a head football coach.

John Ondriezek, the Marauders’ coach since 1993, announced his resignation last week.

“I’ve coached for 40 years, it’s just time for me to do some other things in my life,” Ondriezek said. “Really, there is no other reason than that. I’m not going out because I don’t want to be involved in coaching anymore, I just want to do some other things

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in life.”

Ondriezek began his coaching career in Florida. He came to Mariner as an assistant coach in 1982 and took over as head coach in 1993.

“It’s just been a terrific experience,” he said. “It’s been very rewarding working with high school athletes. I’ve developed some great friendships with the athletes I’ve worked with over the years and also the coaches and teachers that I’ve worked with — some lifelong friendships.”

Ondriezek guided the Marauders to the state playoffs five times, including an appearance in the 1998 Class 3A state

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championship game, where they lost to Capital 29-27.

In 2006, Mariner fell to Oak Harbor 43-42 in a memorable first-round state playoff game in Mount Vernon that took two overtimes to decide. Oak Harbor went on to win the Class 4A state championship, surrendering a total of 46 points over its next three playoff games.

Another notable season was 2003, when Ondriezek had the opportunity to coach his son, Matt.

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BOYS BASKETBALL Northwest 1B—Lummi at Providence Classical Christian at Overlake Christian Church, 4 p.m.; Grace Academy at Tulalip Heritage, 5 p.m.

Nonconference—Lynnwood at Archbishop Murphy, 6:45 p.m.; Shorecrest at Cedarcrest, Seattle Christian at Cedar Park Christian (Bothell), Mariner at Marysville Getchell, Jackson at Stanwood, Marysville Pilchuck at Snohomish, Mount Vernon at Oak Harbor, Monroe at Everett, Glacier Peak at Lake Stevens, Arlington at Cascade, Kamiak at Edmonds-Woodway, 7:15 p.m.

BOYS SWIMMING Mount Vernon vs. Everett at Forest Park Pool, 2:30 p.m.; Shorewood vs. Marysville Getchell, Shorewood vs. Marysville Pilchuck, both at Marysville Pilchuck H.S., 2:45 p.m.; Edmonds-Woodway at Lake Stevens, Mountlake Terrace at Lake Stevens, both 3:15 p.m.; Monroe vs. Meadowdale, Monroe vs. Lynnwood, both at Lynnwood Pool, 3:15 p.m.; Oak Harbor vs. Jackson, Jackson vs. Snohomish, Jackson at Glacier Peak, Oak Harbor at Glacier Peak, Oak Harbor at Snohomish, all at Snohomish Aquatic Center, 3:15 p.m.; Stanwood at Kamiak, Cascade at Kamiak, both 3:15 p.m.; Mariner vs. Shorecrest at Shoreline Pool, 3:30 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Northwest 1B—Grace Academy at Tulalip Heritage, 3 p.m.

Nonconference—Seattle Christian at Cedar Park Christian (Bothell), 5:15 p.m.; Sultan at Cascade Christian, 7 p.m.; Cedarcrest at Shorecrest, 7:15 p.m.

GIRLS BOWLING Wesco—Everett vs. Jackson at Majestic Lanes, 3:30 p.m.

WRESTLING Everett at Lynnwood, Marysville Getchell vs. Mountlake Terrace at Meadowdale H.S., Sultan at Jackson, Stanwood vs. EdmondsWoodway at Glacier Peak H.S., Marysville Pilchuck at Meadowdale, Arlington vs.

Shorewood at Lynnwood H.S., Granite Falls vs. Cascade at Jackson H.S., Oak Harbor at Glacier Peak, all 5:30 p.m.

Sultan at Cascade, Shorecrest at Monroe, Arlington at Lynnwood, Granite Falls at Jackson, Stanwood at Glacier Peak, Oak Harbor vs. Edmonds-Woodway at Glacier Peak H.S., Everett vs. Shorewood at Lynnwood H.S., Marysville Getchell at Meadowdale, Marysville Pilchuck vs. Mountlake Terrace at Meadowdale H.S., all 7 p.m.

Free-agent outfielder Melky Cabrera is believed to be seeking a five-year deal that could approach $60 million.

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M’s favored to sign Cabrera

By Bob Dutton The News Tribune

SAN DIEGO — Melky to the Mariners?

Not yet.

While everything points to the Seattle Mariners emerging as a clear favorite to sign freeagent outfielder Melky Cabrera, multiple sources Monday at the Winter Meetings contend no agreement is imminent.

Kansas City, San Francisco and the Chicago White Sox have also shown recent interest in Cabrera, a 30-year-old switch-hitter who is believed to be seeking a five-year deal that could approach $60 million.

“Everything I hear is (the favorite is) the Mariners,” said an official from one of those rival clubs pursuing Cabrera. “He’s still talking with other teams, but it sure sounds like the Mariners are the team to beat.”

General manager Jack Zduriencik previously cited an outfield bat as the club’s top remaining off-season target, but he insisted the Mariners are not close to a deal with Cabrera — or any other major move — at the moment.

“No, we are not,” Zduriencik emphasized. “We have dialogue with a lot of clubs and some free agents. But I could not say that we’re close to anything right

now.”

Other sources support Zduriencik’s statement by saying the Mariners continue to explore other possibilities, such as a trade for Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp or pursuing free-agent outfielder Alex Rios.

Zduriencik also said the club has internal options but declined to elaborate.

“I’d like to be careful on that,” he said. “Until you talk to your players — they’re the first ones who would need to know what we’re thinking once we get through this next period of time.”

Zduriencik said that time frame could last into next year,

but his comments suggest a possible position switch for one or more players. Brad Miller looms as a likely candidate if Chris Taylor is the regular shortstop.

“I think we need to let this evolve,” Zduriencik said, “and see how the club looks, let’s say, at the first of the year. I think, then, we could start to make some phone calls on some ideas we have — if we don’t add anything.”

The Mariners’ preferred option appears to be Cabrera, a 10-year veteran who batted .301 last season for Toronto with 16 homers and 73 RBI in 139 before suffering a broken finger in early September.

MARINERS | Notebook

M’s think catcher Hicks ready to play in majors

By Bob Dutton The News Tribune

SAN DIEGO — Catcher John Hicks is ready to play in the majors.

Hicks, who was added to the Seattle Mariners roster on Nov. 20, is ready to step into a bigleague role, general manager Jack Zduriencik said, if an injury to starter Mike Zunino or backup Jesus Sucre creates an opening.

“Everybody likes John Hicks,” Zduriencik said. “I think everyone feels this guy, if you had to run him to the big leagues right now, he could be a big-league player.

“He’s very athletic. He’s very smart. He’s a nice receiver.

He’s got some offensive ability.

It’s a nice package. He’s got a very accurate arm, and a quick release.”

Hicks, 25, was a fourth-round pick in 2011 and split last season between Double-A Jackson and Triple-A Tacoma. He has a .288 average in four minor-league seasons with 26 homers and 181 RBI in 320 games.

Bullpen lefty The Mariners want to add a lefty to their bullpen to fill the hole created

when veteran Joe Beimel became a free agent.

“You’d really like to have more than one left-handed reliever (in addition to Charlie Furbush),” Zduriencik said. “I don’t think there’s any question about that. We do have some internal options.”

Zduriencik declined to comment on the club’s possible interest in resigning Beimel, who was 3-1 with a 2.20 ERA in 56 games in returning the big leagues for the first time since 2011.

Beimel, 37, missed 2012 while recovering from Tommy John surgery and spent all of 2013 at Triple-A Gwinnett in the Atlanta system. He is a veteran of 12 big-league seasons with seven clubs.

“Whether or not we sign a freeagent left-handed pitcher,” Zduriencik said, “would really depend on how things fall into place in the next week to 10 days and what else is still out there.”

Award for Jackson Outfielder Alex Jackson, the Mariners’ top pick in last year’s draft, will receive his award Tuesday at the Winter Meetings as Baseball America’s high school player of the year.

Jackson, who turns 19 on Christmas, won the award as a catcher at Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego. The Mariners converted him to an outfielder in order to shorten his timetable for reaching the big leagues.

The magazine also recently cited Jackson as the Mariners’ top prospect.

Morales wants big deal First baseman/DH Kendrys Morales told The News Tribune late in the season that he hoped to land a multi-year deal once he again became a free agent after the season.

His agent, Scott Boras, is now trying to find just such a deal — “multiple years and substantial dollars” — according to an official with an American League club, reports Jerry Crasnick of ESPN. Morales, 31, batted just .218 last season with eight homers and 42 RBI in 98 games for the Twins and Mariners after sitting out more than two months because he couldn’t find a similar long-term deal last winter as a free agent.

One difference: Morales isn’t weighed down this year by a qualifying offer, which means any team that signs him won’t also be required to surrender a draft pick.

Gutierrez on hold Outfielder Franklin Gutierrez isn’t completely off the Mariners’ radar — but it seems he’s getting close. He is only now starting to test his recovery from gastrointestinal problems by playing in winter ball.

Gutierrez, 31, played for the Mariners from 2009-13 but missed all of last season because of his illness. He is now a free agent.

“We’ll see,” Zduriencik said. “He

missed the whole year. I don’t know where he’s at mentally or physically.

He had planned on playing some portion of winter ball to kind of gauge where he was at.”

Gutierrez began his winter season Monday when he played center field for Caracas in 6-0 victory over Zulia in Venezuela. He had a homer, a sacrifice fly and a walk in three plate appearances.

Wills falls short Former Mariners manager Maury Wills fell three votes short of reaching the Hall of Fame when the Golden Era (1947-72) Committee announced its results.

The 16-member committee failed to elect any of the 10 finalists. Election required 12 votes — 75 percent.

Dick Allen and Tony Oliva each fell one vote short.

Jim Kaat finished behind Allen and Oliva with 10 votes. Minnie Minoso had eight, while five candidates received three votes or fewer: Ken Boyer, Gil Hodges, Bob Howsam, Billy Pierce and Luis Tiant.

Wills, now 82, played primarily for the Dodgers in a 14-year career from 1959-72. He was the National League’s Most Valuable Player in 1962 when he stole a then-record 104 bases.

The Golden Era Committee is one of three veterans committees. The Pre-Integration Committee (prior to 1947) will meet next year, and the Expansion Era Committee (post-1972) will meet in two years.

BASEBALL | Notebook

Indians acquire first baseman/outfielder Moss from A’s Associated Press CLEVELAND — The Indians addressed the need for more power in their lineup. Now Brandon Moss has to provide it.

Cleveland finalized a trade — the first of the winter meetings — that has been in the works for weeks by acquiring Moss, a first baseman/outfielder and All-Star last season, from the Oakland Athletics on Monday for minor league infielder Joey Wendle.

The 31-year-old Moss batted

.234 with 25 homers and 81 RBI in a career-high 147 games for the A’s. The left-handed hitter drew 67 walks and scored 70 runs. Moss hit .268 with 21 homers in the first half of the season to earn his first All-Star selection, but a nagging hip problem cut into his production over the final months.

On Oct. 21, Moss underwent an operation on his hip. Moss said Dr. Thomas Byrd was prepared to perform microfracture surgery but all that he needed

was a labrum repair and cartilage cleanup, which should make his rehab somewhat easier.

Moss said his rehab is coming along well and he expects to be cleared to run later this month.

The A’s traded another AllStar last month, sending third baseman Josh Donaldson to the Toronto Blue Jays.

“We’ve done it before,” A’s general manager Billy Beane said about making big moves in the last several months. “We’ve had to. The tough thing is you’re

talking about players who are really good players for us in a very successful period. It’s tough having to do this every few years but unfortunately necessary.”

Hammel returns to Cubs SAN DIEGO — Pitcher Jason Hammel is returning to the Chicago Cubs. A source confirmed that Hammel, a free agent, and the Cubs have agreed to a reunion, five months after the Cubs traded him to the Oakland Athletics. Hammel got a twoyear deal for a reported $18 million, with a club option for a third year.

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Chiefs’ Berry diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease

By Dave Skretta Associated Press

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs safety Eric Berry has been diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease and will begin chemotherapy for what doctors called a “very treatable and potentially curable” form of cancer.

Berry had been undergoing tests at Emory University in Atlanta since an MRI exam nearly two weeks ago showed a mass on the right side of his chest. At the time, doctors were still uncertain whether the mass was cancerous, but further testing revealed the lymphoma.

Hodgkin’s disease, also called Hodgkin’s lymphoma, is a cancer of the immune system that only represents about 8 percent of all diagnosed lymphomas.

According to the National Cancer Institute, more than 9,000 people will be diagnosed with it in the United States this year.

The survival rate in 1960 was about 40 percent, but advancements in medicine combined with earlier detections have increased the survival rate to more than 80 percent.

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Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota is favored to win the Heisman Trophy on Saturday.

Heisman finalists

Oregon’s Mariota, Alabama’s Cooper and Wisconsin’s Gordon

By Ralph D. Russo

Bengals’ Lewis calls Manziel ‘a midget’ Associated Press CLEVELAND — As Johnny Manziel waits to see if the Browns will make him their starting quarterback this week, Cincinnati Bengals coach Marvin Lewis called the rookie “a midget” during a radio interview on Monday night.

The Browns play the Bengals on Sunday.

Through the team’s publicity department, Lewis later apologized for the comment.

“I apologize to Johnny, the Browns and to all the fans in Cleveland,” Lewis said in his statement. “It was just a poor remark. I really didn’t mean anything by it.”

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and their sense for one another and playing familiar spots and all that kind of stuff has really paid off,” Carroll said.

As many players as Seattle returned from its championship defense, several key players did leave in the offseason, including cornerback Brandon Browner, cornerback Walter Thurmond, defensive ends Chris Clemons and Red Bryant and defensive tackle Clinton McDonald.

Those departures meant working new players into the mix or adding to other players’ work load. Freeagent defensive tackle Kevin Williams had to fill a different role when Mebane was injured. Second-year defensive tackle Jordan Hill and secondyear cornerback Tharold Simon have bigger roles.

And there is more playing time for defensive ends Cliff Avril and Michael Bennett. Sorting all of that out takes time, and that process was certainly hindered by the midseason rash of injuries.

That’s where the camaraderie factor Carroll mentions come in. And it’s why he is encouraged by what he is seeing now. Both from the players who have been around for a while like Chancellor, free safety Earl Thomas and cornerback Richard Sherman, and from the young players taking on new roles this season.

“Our guys have been together a long time now, even though they’re still only four years old in the league or whatever, they’ve still been together a long time and done a lot of stuff together,” Carroll said. “So they’re coming together and they’re learning one another and they’re learning what it takes to play at a really high level.”

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NEW YORK — The Heisman Trophy finalists would make one heck of an offense.

Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota, Alabama receiver Amari Cooper and recordbreaking Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon are set to make the trip to New York for the Heisman presentation after the finalists were announced on Monday.

Mariota is considered the clear the front-runner to win the 80th Heisman on Saturday night in New York. He would become the first Oregon player to earn college football’s most famous player of the year trophy.

Mariota and the secondseeded Ducks will face Florida State and last year’s Heisman

And what the Seahawks have done in the past three games, holding their opponents to a total of 507 yards and 20 points, has certainly been impressive.

Heading into the Cardinals game, the Seahawks ranked third in the league in yards allowed at 306.1 per game, and 12th in points allowed with 21.5 per game. It took Seattle just three games to lower those numbers to 274.5 yards per game, which ranks first, and 18.1 points, which ranks second in the league. The Seahawks have a good shot at bettering last year’s league-leading number for yards allowed (273.6 per game), though they’ve already allowed four more points than they did all of last season when they gave up 14.4 points per game.

Over the past nine seasons, only three teams have allowed fewer yards over a four-game span than what Seattle accomplished. Though the lower totals (422 by the 2009 Giants, 494 by the ’11 Texans and 497 by the ’09 Jets) were all posted by teams facing opposition with losing records, while the Seahawks just dominated three teams that had a combined .758 winning percentage.

The key, of course, is to maintain this level of excellence, or something close to it, going forward. What the Seahawks have done of late is impressive, but it won’t mean much if they falter down the stretch or in the playoffs. The perhaps encouraging news for the Seahawks is when they had a midseason swoon last season, giving up more than 200 rushing yards in back-to-back games, they were able to maintain a high level of defensive play throughout the rest of the season once they fixed things.

“Anybody can do it sometimes,” Carroll said.

“The challenge is, can you do it consistently and

winner Jameis Winston at the Rose Bowl in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Jan. 1.

Cooper helped Alabama earn the top seed in the playoff.

The Crimson Tide plays Ohio State at the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.

Winston becomes the seventh player since 2003 to take a shot at a Heisman repeat and come up short. Ohio State’s Archie Griffin is the only player to win two Heismans.

Finalists are determined by percentage of votes received from 929 media members and former winners.

Mariota didn’t even break the top 10 in the Heisman voting last season, but entered 2014 as one of the preseason favorites.

He delivered a spectacular season in his third year as the Ducks’ starter. He is the nation’s

find a way to always be on your game? That’s the tremendous challenge of the coaching staff and the team and the team leaders and all of that so we’re trying to figure that out and see if we can do it one more time.”

Injury update The Seahawks mostly got out of Sunday’s win healthy, but a potentially serious injury was the “legit” ankle sprain suffered by defensive lineman Demarcus Dobbs. If you don’t speak Pete Carroll, “legit” is usually code for serious. And Carroll indicated a roster move could be coming, so Dobbs might end up on injured reserve later this week. Carroll said one way the Seahawks could add depth to their D-line without a roster move by using fullback/defensive tackle Will Tukuafu more on defense.

Center Max Unger (ankle/ knee), who has missed three games, and tight end Cooper Helfet (ankle), who has missed two, could both return this week, though Carroll said their status won’t be know until later in the week. Simon, who

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top-rated passer (186.3) and has thrown for 3,783 yards and 38 touchdowns with just two interceptions. He also has run for 669 yards and 14 touchdowns for the Pac-12 champions.

He is Oregon’s third finalist, joining quarterback Joey Harrington (2001) and running back LaMichael James (2010).

Gordon leads the nation with 2,336 yards rushing and 179.7 yards per game. Gordon broke the single-game FBS rushing record with 408 yards against Nebraska, a record that only stood for a week. He needs another huge game in the Outback Bowl against Auburn to break Barry Sanders’ singleseason record of 2,628, set in his Heisman winning season of 1988 with Oklahoma State.

He is the fourth Wisconsin running back to be a finalist.

dislocated a finger during the game, is fine.

Competing for a nickel?

Jeremy Lane should be back this week after missing two games with a glute injury, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he will go back to being Seattle’s full-time nickel cornerback. Byron Maxwell played very well in that role the last two games, moving from the outside to the nickel role, with Simon playing right cornerback, and Carroll said he likes the flexibility the team has now to use different players for different matchups.

It’s possible, depending on the offense and receivers Seattle is facing, that Carroll will decide to use a combination of Lane, Maxwell and Simon for two spots going forward (obviously Sherman is going to be on the field at all times).

stopped at the 9-yard line. Carroll noted that the issue wasn’t just with Richardson, saying the Eagles had some “free run-

ners” get through unblocked.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. — Another big first half helped the Green Bay Packers withstand a furious rally by the desperate Atlanta Falcons.

Eddie Lacy ran for a touchdown and caught one of Aaron Rodgers’ three TD passes, and Green Bay built a 24-point lead before holding on for a 43-37 victory Monday night.

The Packers (10-3) earned their fifth consecutive victory to stay a game up on Detroit in the NFC North. Atlanta dropped to 5-8, but remained in a first-place tie with New Orleans in the woeful NFC South.

“Good victory tonight, our seventh victory at home this year. ...

10 victories has always been kind of a benchmark,” coach Mike McCarthy said. “In the NFC, 11 wins will probably be more of a benchmark this year.”

Julio Jones had a career-best 259 yards receiving for the Falcons before leaving with a hip injury. Jones had a 22-yard touchdown catch in a 20-point fourth quarter that helped Atlanta cut into Green Bay’s big lead.

Matt Ryan’s 2-yard touchdown pass to Harry Douglas with 2:15 left got Atlanta within six.

But the Packers recovered the ensuing onside kick.

Lacy left in the fourth quarter with bruised hip. Backup running back James Starks effectively ended Atlanta’s upset hopes with a 41-yard run to the Falcons 6 with 1:37 left.

Atlanta came frustratingly close to a rare victory in Titletown.

Green Bay held on for its seventh home win, but the porous pass defense may have given potential playoff foes some hope that Lambeau Field may not be that impenetrable after all.

“Defensively, a tale of two halves. You have to give Atlanta’s offense a lot of credit,” McCarthy said. “We have plenty to clean up.”

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Hawks 108, Pacers 92

NBA WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct Portland 16 4 .800 Denver 9 12 .429 Oklahoma City 7 13 .350 Utah 5 16 .238 Minnesota 4 16 .200 Pacific Division W L Pct Golden State 18 2 .900 L.A. Clippers 15 5 .750 Phoenix 12 10 .545 Sacramento 11 10 .524 L.A. Lakers 5 16 .238 Southwest Division W L Pct Houston 16 4 .800 Memphis 16 4 .800 San Antonio 15 5 .750 Dallas 16 6 .727 New Orleans 9 10 .474 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct Toronto 16 5 .762 Brooklyn 8 11 .421 Boston 7 12 .368 New York 4 18 .182 Philadelphia 2 18 .100 Southeast Division W L Pct Atlanta 14 6 .700 Washington 14 6 .700 Miami 9 11 .450 Orlando 9 14 .391 Charlotte 5 15 .250 Central Division W L Pct Cleveland 12 7 .632 Chicago 12 8 .600 Milwaukee 11 11 .500 Indiana 7 14 .333 Detroit 3 18 .143 Today’s games Toronto at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Portland at Detroit, 4:30 p.m.

New York at New Orleans, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Oklahoma City, 5 p.m.

Dallas at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Miami at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Utah, 6 p.m.

Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, 7:30 p.m.

GB — 7½ 9 11½ 12 GB — 3 7 7½ 13½ GB — — 1 1 6½ GB — 7 8 12½ 13½ GB — — 5 6½ 9 GB — ½ 2½ 6 10

Raptors 112, Nuggets 107 (OT) DENVER (107) Chandler 7-21 0-0 18, Hickson 4-8 2-3 10, Mozgov 7-14 1-1 15, Lawson 8-19 4-6 22, Afflalo 9-14 3-3 25, Gee 1-4 1-2 3, Harris 0-2 0-0 0, Arthur 6-17 0-0 12, Green 1-3 0-0 2, Gallinari 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 43-104 11-15 107.

TORONTO (112) Ross 7-15 1-2 16, A.Johnson 3-3 1-2 7, Valanciunas 8-11 2-3 18, Lowry 3-13 7-8 13, Vasquez 4-9 1-2 9, Williams 7-16 9-10 26, Patterson 7-11 0-0 19, Hansbrough 0-1 0-0 0, J.Johnson 2-2 0-2 4. Totals 41-81 21-29 112.

Denver Toronto

30 22 35 27

29 21 5 — 107 20 20 10 — 112

3-Point Goals—Denver 10-30 (Afflalo 4-7, Chandler 4-11, Lawson 2-8, Gallinari 0-1, Arthur 0-3), Toronto 9-33 (Patterson 5-7, Williams 3-10, Ross 1-8, Vasquez 0-3, Lowry 0-5). Fouled Out—Arthur. Rebounds—Denver 60 (Arthur 13), Toronto 53 (Valanciunas 12). Assists—Denver 21 (Lawson 12), Toronto 21 (Lowry 13). Total Fouls—Denver 28, Toronto 16. Technicals— Toronto defensive three second. A—19,800 (19,800).

Warriors 102, Timberwolves 86 GOLDEN STATE (102) Barnes 2-5 0-0 4, Green 3-10 4-4 10, Bogut 0-2 0-0 0, Curry 10-20 0-0 21, Thompson 7-15 4-4 21, Ezeli 3-4 1-2 7, Livingston 5-8 2-2 12, Iguodala 4-10 0-0 8, Speights 5-8 2-2 12, Barbosa 2-5 0-0 4, Rush 0-1 0-0 0, Holiday 1-2 0-0 3, Kuzmic 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 42-91 13-14 102.

MINNESOTA (86) Wiggins 8-19 5-8 21, Young 5-11 2-3 13, Dieng 2-4 2-2 6, LaVine 4-16 1-2 9, Brewer 4-12 2-4 10, Muhammad 4-8 6-6 14, Bennett 2-8 0-0 4, Hummel 0-3 0-0 0, Budinger 2-4 0-0 5, Robinson III 1-3 1-2 3, Adrien 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 32-89 20-29 86.

Golden State 25 23 Minnesota 20 19

31 24

23 — 102 23 — 86

3-Point Goals—Golden State 5-22 (Thompson 3-6, Holiday 1-1, Curry 1-7, Barnes 0-1, Barbosa 0-1, Iguodala 0-3, Green 0-3), Minnesota 2-11 (Budinger 1-1, Young 1-1, Hummel 0-1, Muhammad 0-1, Wiggins 0-1, LaVine 0-2, Robinson III 0-2, Brewer 0-2). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Golden State 54 (Green 10), Minnesota 62 (Dieng 11). Assists—Golden State 24 (Curry 7), Minnesota 22 (LaVine 8). Total Fouls— Golden State 18, Minnesota 10. A—10,296 (19,356).

Kings 101, Jazz 92 UTAH (92) Hayward 6-16 6-10 19, Favors 3-6 3-4 9, Kanter 5-11 2-2 13, Burke 4-13 4-4 13, Burks 5-11 6-9 16, Booker 2-6 2-4 6, Hood 0-3 0-0 0, Exum 1-3 0-0 2, Gobert 5-8 2-4 12, Ingles 1-2 0-0 2, J.Evans 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-79 25-37 92.

SACRAMENTO (101) Gay 10-19 9-10 29, Thompson 3-8 4-6 10, R.Evans 2-4 2-4 6, Collison 6-12 4-4 16, McLemore 2-5 2-2 6, Stauskas 6-12 1-1 15, Landry 1-2 4-4 6, Williams 3-7 0-0 7, Hollins 0-0 0-0 0, Sessions 2-5 2-5 6. Totals 35-74 2836 101.

Utah 31 18 Sacramento 23 32

19 13

24 — 92 33 — 101

3-Point Goals—Utah 3-17 (Kanter 1-2, Burke 1-4, Hayward 1-7, Burks 0-1, Exum 0-1, Hood 0-2), Sacramento 3-8 (Stauskas 2-4, Williams 1-1, Gay 0-1, Collison 0-2). Fouled Out—Kanter. Rebounds—Utah 51 (Gobert 9), Sacramento 55 (R.Evans 13). Assists—Utah 20 (Hayward 7), Sacramento 18 (Collison 6). Total Fouls—Utah 26, Sacramento 24. Technicals— Kanter, Utah defensive three second. A—16,511 (17,317).

Clippers 121, Suns 120 (OT) PHOENIX (120) Tucker 2-6 0-0 4, Mark.Morris 8-16 2-2 21, Plumlee 1-2 0-0 2, Bledsoe 8-16 9-9 27, G.Dragic 7-14 0-0 17, Len 6-11 2-5 14, Green 5-11 3-4 15, Marc.Morris 4-8 0-0 11, Tolliver 3-7 0-0 9. Totals 44-91 16-20 120.

L.A. CLIPPERS (121) Barnes 4-11 0-0 8, Griffin 14-24 15-17 45, Jordan 5-6 0-2 10, Paul 8-23 3-4 20, Redick 5-13 5-6 17, Crawford 3-10 0-0 9, Turkoglu 1-2 0-0 2, Hawes 2-4 0-0 4, Cunningham 1-2 1-1 4, Davis 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 44-96 24-30 121.

Phoenix 28 29 L.A. Clippers 28 32

23 32 8 — 120 29 23 9 — 121

3-Point Goals—Phoenix 16-37 (Marc.Morris 3-5, Tolliver 3-5, G.Dragic 3-6, Mark.Morris 3-7, Bledsoe 2-6, Green 2-6, Tucker 0-2), L.A. Clippers 9-31 (Crawford 3-4, Griffin 2-2, Redick 2-7, Cunningham 1-2, Paul 1-9, Hawes 0-1, Turkoglu 0-1, Barnes 0-5). Fouled Out—Len. Rebounds— Phoenix 52 (Bledsoe 11), L.A. Clippers 57 (Jordan 14). Assists—Phoenix 32 (Bledsoe 16), L.A. Clippers 27 (Paul 10). Total Fouls—Phoenix 28, L.A. Clippers 22. Technicals—G.Dragic, Crawford, Griffin, L.A. Clippers Coach Rivers. Ejected— Crawford. A—19,060 (19,060).

Cavaliers 110, Nets 88 CLEVELAND (110) James 8-17 1-2 18, Love 7-14 3-6 19, Varejao 2-5 3-4 7, Irving 2-10 3-3 7, Marion 0-2 0-0 0, Thompson 6-7 2-4 14, Waiters 11-21 3-3 26, Dellavedova 1-4 0-0 2, Jones 4-5 0-0 12, Harris 1-2 0-0 3, Haywood 1-2 0-0 2, Amundson 0-0 0-0 0, Price 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 43-90 15-22 110.

BROOKLYN (88) Anderson 3-7 0-0 6, Teletovic 5-12 0-2 11, Garnett 6-9 2-3 14, Williams 3-14 6-6 13, Bogdanovic 1-6 0-0 2, Jordan 6-8 0-0 12, Plumlee 4-8 1-4 9, Jack 1-4 1-2 4, Karasev 4-5 2-2 11, Jefferson 2-5 0-0 4, Brown 1-3 0-0 2, Gutierrez 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 36-81 12-19 88.

Cleveland Brooklyn

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3-Point Goals—Cleveland 9-25 (Jones 4-5, Love 2-5, Harris 1-2, James 1-3, Waiters 1-6, Price 0-1, Dellavedova 0-1, Irving 0-1, Marion 0-1), Brooklyn 4-19 (Jack 1-1, Karasev 1-1, Williams 1-4, Teletovic 1-6, Jefferson 0-1, Anderson 0-3, Bogdanovic 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Cleveland 62 (Varejao, Love 14), Brooklyn 44 (Garnett 7).

Assists—Cleveland 25 (James 7), Brooklyn 25 (Williams 11). Total Fouls—Cleveland 17, Brooklyn 18.

Technicals—Williams. A—17,732 (17,732).

Wizards 133, Celtics 132 (2OT)

by kick), :24.

ATLANTA (108) Carroll 4-8 1-2 12, Millsap 2-6 3-9 7, Horford 9-18 6-6 25, Teague 8-11 4-5 21, Korver 4-7 2-2 13, Antic 2-5 2-2 7, Mack 1-5 1-1 3, Schroder 3-4 0-0 6, Scott 3-5 0-0 6, Sefolosha 4-7 0-0 8, Bazemore 0-1 0-0 0, Muscala 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 40-77 19-27 108.

INDIANA (92) Copeland 2-6 1-2 6, West 4-9 0-0 8, Hibbert 4-9 0-0 8, Stuckey 6-11 2-4 15, S.Hill 2-6 1-2 5, Allen 3-3 2-4 8, Miles 5-11 1-1 15, Rudez 2-6 0-0 5, Watson 2-7 1-2 7, Scola 6-12 0-1 12, Whittington 1-3 1-1 3, Sloan 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 37-84 9-17 92.

Atlanta Indiana

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25 21

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3-Point Goals—Atlanta 9-21 (Korver 3-6, Carroll 3-6, Horford 1-1, Teague 1-1, Antic 1-3, Scott 0-1, Mack 0-1, Millsap 0-2), Indiana 9-27 (Miles 4-7, Watson 2-6, Stuckey 1-1, Copeland 1-4, Rudez 1-4, Sloan 0-1, Whittington 0-1, Scola 0-1, S.Hill 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Atlanta 52 (Millsap, Horford 8), Indiana 48 (Scola 9). Assists—Atlanta 27 (Teague 7), Indiana 23 (S.Hill 6). Total Fouls—Atlanta 20, Indiana 22.

Technicals—Indiana Coach Vogel. A—14,519 (18,165).

Men’s AP Top 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking Record Pts Prv 1. Kentucky (64) 9-0 1,600 1 2. Duke 8-0 1,518 4 3. Arizona 8-0 1,486 3 4. Louisville 7-0 1,319 5 5. Wisconsin 8-1 1,316 2 6. Virginia 9-0 1,285 7 7. Villanova 8-0 1,173 10 8. Texas 7-1 1,155 6 9. Gonzaga 7-1 1,145 9 10. Kansas 6-1 1,083 11 11. Wichita St. 5-1 929 8 12. Ohio St. 6-1 808 14 13. Utah 6-1 717 25 14. Iowa St. 5-1 668 20 15. Butler 7-1 593 23 16. Oklahoma 5-2 557 22 17. Washington 7-0 428 — 18. San Diego St. 6-2 390 13 19. Maryland 8-1 370 21 20. Miami 8-1 359 15 21. North Carolina 6-2 350 12 22. West Virginia 8-1 313 16 23. N. Iowa 8-0 232 — 24. St. John’s 6-1 211 — 25. Notre Dame 8-1 200 — Others receiving votes: Michigan St. 120, Illinois 91, Georgetown 62, Iowa 60, Seton Hall 57, Baylor 49, TCU 45, Colorado St. 28, Arkansas 22, California 19, Michigan 14, Creighton 7, VCU 6, LSU 5, Indiana 3, NC State 3, Old Dominion 2, Dayton 1, Yale 1.

Men’s USA Today Top 25 The top 25 teams in the USA Today men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 7, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking Record Pts Pvs 1. Kentucky (30) 9-0 798 1 2. Duke (1) 8-0 761 2 3. Arizona (1) 8-0 742 3 4. Louisville 7-0 676 5 5. Virginia 9-0 654 6 6. Wisconsin 8-1 639 4 7. Villanova 8-0 606 9 8. Gonzaga 7-1 562 8 9. Texas 7-1 558 7 10. Kansas 6-1 515 11 11. Wichita State 5-1 447 10 12. Ohio State 6-1 400 13 13. Iowa State 5-1 349 19 14. Utah 6-1 238 NR 15. Oklahoma 5-2 232 20 16. San Diego State 6-1 230 14 17. Washington 7-0 225 NR 18. North Carolina 6-2 204 12 19. Butler 7-1 199 NR 20. Maryland 8-1 198 22 21. Miami (Fla.) 8-1 168 15 21. West Virginia 8-1 168 17 23. Michigan State 6-3 111 18 24. Northern Iowa 8-0 110 NR 25. Illinois 7-1 104 25 Others receiving votes: Notre Dame 91; St. John’s 62; Michigan 45; Arkansas 38; Georgetown 34; Florida 31; Baylor 29; Iowa 29; Seton Hall 28; TCU 26; California 23; Creighton 12; Virginia Commonwealth 10; Colorado State 9; Nebraska 9; Louisiana Tech 8; North Carolina State 5; Oklahoma State 5; Providence 4; Old Dominion 3; UCLA 3; LSU 1; Saint Mary’s 1.

Women’s AP Top 25 The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 7, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking Record Pts Prv 1. South Carolina (23) 8-0 837 1 2. UConn (7) 6-1 805 3 3. Texas (4) 6-0 772 4 4. Texas A&M 9-0 740 5 5. Notre Dame 8-1 738 2 6. North Carolina 8-0 685 6 7. Stanford 5-2 613 8 8. Kentucky 8-1 585 13 9. Baylor 6-1 552 11 10. Louisville 8-1 534 7 11. Tennessee 6-2 465 14 12. Nebraska 7-1 425 12 13. Duke 5-3 408 9 14. Maryland 7-2 377 15 15. Oregon St. 7-0 358 17 16. Georgia 10-0 354 19 17. Rutgers 7-1 304 18 18. California 7-1 298 10 19. Michigan St. 5-2 238 16 20. Oklahoma St. 6-1 197 20 20. Syracuse 6-1 197 21 22. Mississippi St. 8-0 194 23 23. West Virginia 6-1 122 24 24. Iowa 7-2 72 22 25. DePaul 6-2 63 25 Others receiving votes: Green Bay 26, St. John’s 15, Northwestern 14, Arizona St. 13, Princeton 7, Washington St. 7, James Madison 6, Minnesota 6, W. Kentucky 5, Washington 5, South Florida 4, Florida St. 3, Oklahoma 3, Kansas 2, Arkansas 1.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFC Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis Philadelphia Dallas N.Y. Giants Washington Atlanta New Orleans Carolina Tampa Bay Green Bay Detroit Minnesota Chicago

West L 3 4 6 7 East W L 9 4 9 4 4 9 3 10 South W L 5 8 5 8 4 8 2 11 North W L 10 3 9 4 6 7 5 8 W 10 9 7 6

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PA 238 235 268 285

T 0 0 0 0

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PF 389 343 293 244

PA 309 301 326 346

T 0 0 1 0

Pct .385 .385 .346 .154

PF 328 333 269 237

PA 342 359 341 348

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PA 304 224 281 378

PF 385 293 291 200

PA 293 272 241 350

PF 401 314 281 214

PA 267 260 241 349

PF 407 314 220 199

PA 307 260 374 356

PF 281 362 356 276

PA 289 319 255 270

AFC West L T Pct Denver 3 0 .769 San Diego 5 0 .615 Kansas City 6 0 .538 Oakland 11 0 .154 East W L T Pct New England 10 3 0 .769 Miami 7 6 0 .538 Buffalo 7 6 0 .538 N.Y. Jets 2 11 0 .154 South W L T Pct ndianapolis 9 4 0 .692 Houston 7 6 0 .538 Tennessee 2 11 0 .154 Jacksonville 2 11 0 .154 North W L T Pct Cincinnati 8 4 1 .654 Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 Baltimore 8 5 0 .615 Cleveland 7 6 0 .538 Monday’s game Green Bay 43, Atlanta 37 Thursday’s game Arizona at St. Louis, 5:25 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 15 New Orleans at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

W 10 8 7 2

BOSTON (132) Green 8-18 11-11 28, Sullinger 2-5 1-2 5, Zeller 4-7 2-2 10, Rondo 0-3 0-0 0, Bradley 3-9 0-0 7, Olynyk 6-12 6-6 19, Turner 8-13 0-0 18, Bass 8-16 3-4 19, Smart 7-14 5-5 23, Thornton 1-5 1-2 3. Totals 47-102 29-32 132.

WASHINGTON (133) Pierce 9-12 6-6 28, Humphries 8-16 1-2 17, Gortat 6-12 9-9 21, Wall 10-17 5-8 26, Beal 5-12 3-4 14, Porter 0-2 0-0 0, Butler 3-7 0-0 7, Seraphin 5-5 1-1 11, Miller 2-4 3-4 7, Gooden 1-7 0-0 2, Temple 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 49-94 28-34 133.

Packers 43, Falcons 37

Boston 29 16 31 34 11 11 — 132 Washington 30 28 34 18 11 12 — 133

Atlanta Green Bay

3-Point Goals—Boston 9-22 (Smart 4-8, Turner 2-2, Olynyk 1-3, Green 1-4, Bradley 1-4, Thornton 0-1), Washington 7-16 (Pierce 4-5, Beal 1-2, Butler 1-3, Wall 1-3, Miller 0-1, Gooden 0-2). Fouled Out—Olynyk. Rebounds—Boston 49 (Olynyk 11), Washington 60 (Gortat 12).

Assists—Boston 27 (Turner 8), Washington 32 (Wall 17). Total Fouls—Boston 30, Washington 26. A—14,828 (20,308).

First Quarter GB—Starks 3 run (Crosby kick), 11:13.

Atl—S.Jackson 4 run (Bryant kick), 7:00.

Second Quarter GB—Lacy 1 run (Crosby kick), 14:55.

GB—FG Crosby 38, 7:17.

GB—Lacy 1 pass from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), 4:20.

GB—Nelson 10 pass from A.Rodgers (Cros-

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Third Quarter Atl—Weems 5 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 12:35.

Atl—FG Bryant 50, 8:20.

GB—FG Crosby 33, 3:57.

Fourth Quarter Atl—Jones 22 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 12:33.

GB—Nelson 60 pass from A.Rodgers (kick blocked), 10:38.

Atl—White 1 pass from Ryan (run failed), 6:15.

GB—FG Crosby 53, 4:33.

Atl—Douglas 2 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 2:11.

A—77,512.

Atl GB First downs 26 28 Total Net Yards 465 502 Rushes-yards 24-91 30-179 Passing 374 323 Punt Returns 0-0 2-20 Kickoff Returns 8-192 6-88 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-32 Comp-Att-Int 24-39-1 24-36-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-1 1-4 Punts 2-48.5 1-31.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 3-11 5-40 Time of Possession 26:59 33:01 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Atlanta, S.Jackson 16-50, Ryan 2-23, Rodgers 3-20, Hester 1-0, Freeman 2-(minus 2). Green Bay, Starks 10-75, Lacy 13-73, A.Rodgers 5-28, Kuhn 1-4, Cobb 1-(minus 1).

PASSING—Atlanta, Ryan 24-39-1-375.

Green Bay, A.Rodgers 24-36-0-327.

RECEIVING—Atlanta, Jones 11-259, White 3-42, S.Jackson 2-26, Douglas 2-11, Freeman 2-10, Rodgers 1-14, DiMarco 1-9, Weems 1-5, Toilolo 1-(minus 1). Green Bay, Nelson 8-146, Lacy 5-33, Cobb 4-58, Quarless 3-52, Starks 2-26, D.Adams 1-6, Kuhn 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Atlanta, Bryant 53 (BK).

HOCKEY NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 29 18 6 5 41 85 79 Vancouver 28 18 8 2 38 87 78 Calgary 28 17 9 2 36 89 72 Los Angeles 27 14 8 5 33 72 59 San Jose 29 14 11 4 32 81 79 Arizona 28 10 15 3 23 66 90 Edmonton 27 7 15 5 19 60 91 Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA St. Louis 28 18 8 2 38 80 65 Chicago 27 18 8 1 37 85 53 Nashville 26 17 7 2 36 70 54 Winnipeg 28 14 9 5 33 64 64 Minnesota 25 14 10 1 29 71 61 Dallas 27 10 12 5 25 79 95 Colorado 27 9 12 6 24 72 89 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 28 18 7 3 39 98 72 Detroit 28 17 6 5 39 88 70 Montreal 29 17 10 2 36 74 76 Toronto 26 14 9 3 31 89 79 Boston 28 15 12 1 31 72 72 Florida 26 11 8 7 29 58 68 Ottawa 27 11 11 5 27 70 74 Buffalo 27 9 16 2 20 47 85 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 27 18 6 3 39 88 64 N.Y. Islanders 27 19 8 0 38 86 74 Washington 26 12 10 4 28 74 71 N.Y. Rangers 26 12 10 4 28 77 76 New Jersey 28 11 13 4 26 66 80 Philadelphia 26 9 13 4 22 68 82 Columbus 26 9 15 2 20 61 88 Carolina 27 8 16 3 19 59 76 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Today’s games Chicago at New Jersey, 4 p.m.

Philadelphia at Columbus, 4 p.m.

Los Angeles at Buffalo, 4:30 p.m.

Calgary at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Montreal, 4:30 p.m.

Washington at Tampa Bay, 4:30 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 5 p.m.

Winnipeg at Dallas, 5:30 p.m.

Nashville at Colorado, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 7:30 p.m.

Devils 2, Panthers 1 New Jersey Carolina

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2 1

First Period—None.

Second Period—1, Carolina, Faulk 4 (Nestrasil, Hainsey), 7:11. 2, New Jersey, Jagr 5 (Gomez), 14:45. 3, New Jersey, Henrique 8 (Jagr, Gomez), 19:46 (pp).

Third Period—None.

Shots on Goal—New Jersey 6-9-1—16.

Carolina 12-11-17—40.

Goalies—New Jersey, Schneider. Carolina, Ward. A—9,815 (18,680). T—2:24.

Rangers 4, Penguins 3 (OT) Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers

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First Period—1, Pittsburgh, Spaling 4 (Crosby, Downie), 12:35.

Second Period—2, N.Y. Rangers, Miller 2 (St. Louis, D.Moore), 3:50. 3, N.Y. Rangers, Nash 18 (Zuccarello, Brassard), 8:40.

Third Period—4, N.Y. Rangers, Hayes 4, 12:58. 5, Pittsburgh, Malkin 15 (Sutter, Comeau), 15:17. 6, Pittsburgh, Downie 4 (Spaling, Scuderi), 15:41.

Overtime—7, N.Y. Rangers, Klein 6 (McDonagh, D.Moore), 3:45.

Shots on Goal—Pittsburgh 8-12-13-2—35.

N.Y. Rangers 9-14-4-2—29.

Goalies—Pittsburgh, Fleury. N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist. A—18,006 (18,006). T—2:33.

Blues 4, Panthers 2 Florida St. Louis

0 2

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First Period—1, St. Louis, Lapierre 2 (Porter, Reaves), 11:17. 2, St. Louis, Cole 3 (Lehtera, Tarasenko), 17:34.

Second Period—3, Florida, Bjugstad 12 (Fleischmann, Gudbranson), 15:21.

Third Period—4, Florida, Ekblad 5 (Jokinen, Campbell), 14:54. 5, St. Louis, Porter 1 (Jackman), 18:06. 6, St. Louis, Stastny 6 (Schwartz), 19:28 (en).

Shots on Goal—Florida 8-18-8—34. St. Louis 11-7-10—28.

Goalies—Florida, Luongo. St. Louis, Mar.Brodeur. A—17,330 (19,150). T—2:29.

Western Hockey League WESTERN CONFERENCE U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Everett 28 17 7 3 1 95 78 38 Portland 33 17 13 0 3 113 116 37 Tri-City 29 16 13 0 0 81 77 32 Spokane 29 14 12 3 0 76 82 31 Seattle 30 13 13 2 2 80 82 30 B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 31 24 4 3 0 138 73 51 Victoria 32 16 14 2 0 107 109 34 Prince George 30 15 15 0 0 94 124 30 Kamloops 32 12 15 3 2 99 114 29 Vancouver 30 12 18 0 0 90 106 24 EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Brandon 31 22 7 2 0 143 103 46 Regina 29 18 10 1 0 105 78 37 Swift Current 32 15 13 0 4 97 102 34 Prince Albert 30 15 15 0 0 94 99 30 Moose Jaw 30 13 14 2 1 91 105 29 Saskatoon 31 7 21 2 1 82 144 17 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Medicine Hat 30 21 7 1 1 113 74 44 Calgary 31 17 11 1 2 124 94 37 Red Deer 31 16 11 3 1 111 104 36 Edmonton 31 14 12 3 2 95 90 33 Kootenay 31 15 16 0 0 94 118 30 Lethbridge 29 6 19 3 1 67 117 16 Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Today’s games Medicine Hat at Kootenay Saskatoon at Prince George Prince Albert at Victoria Everett at Tri-City

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WHL | Notebook

State investigates WHL teams

By Nick Patterson Herald Writer

The investigation into a child-labor complaint filed with the State of Washington against the WHL’s four Washington-based teams is being expanded.

Matthew Erlich, a spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Labor and Industry, contacted media outlets last Thursday to inform them that the investigation of the complaint, which was filed by an unnamed party in September of 2013, will continue.

The Department of Labor and Industry made the decision after soliciting advice from the State Attorney General’s office, Erlich said.

“We’ll be seeking more information now from the WHL teams in the state,” Erlich said.

The four WHL teams in Washington are the Everett Silvertips, Seattle Thunderbirds, Spokane Chiefs and Tri-City Americans.

The complaint alleges that WHL teams violate the state’s minimum wage laws. Players are compensated with room, board, a small monthly stipend and one year of college paid for each season played in the league. The complaint says the monthly stipend, which numbers in the hundreds of dollars and varies based on the player’s age, does not meet the Washington State minimum wage of $9.32 per hour.

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kinder diagnosis.

“It’s huge,” Leedahl said. “I probably would have been out for the whole season.

Being able to join my teammates again is a pretty exciting thing.”

Everett coach Kevin Constantine agreed: “It’s a big relief, plus our team misses his style of play. There’s different ingredients to a hockey team, and he brings a lot of size and dirt and hitting and physical play.

We’re just missing a little of that right now.”

Leedahl may have wore a no-contact jersey during Monday’s practice, and he won’t play in Tuesday’s game at Tri-City or in Everett’s two games over the weekend. However, he was allowed to participate in some battle drills during practice, and he’s hopeful he can return in time to play in Everett’s final two games prior to the Christmas break, next Tuesday at Vancouver and

WHL commissioner Ron Robison issued a statement in September saying, “Our WHL clubs have responded to the government, providing requested information and explaining that our players are student athletes playing in a developmental hockey league, and participating and contributing to their sport the same way as other amateur athletes. … Amateur hockey players have competed within the WHL in the State of Washington since 1977.

The WHL certainly recognizes that undoubtedly any changes to the status of junior hockey players could impact the status of other amateur athletes in the state as well.”

The complaint comes at a time when similar legal challenges are being made in Canada on behalf of Canadian Hockey League players. Challenges are also being made in the U.S. with regards to the status of collegiate athletes and whether they should be considered amateur.

There is no timetable for concluding the investigation. Erlich said the investigation can be stopped or the complaint can be settled at any point. However, Erlich said the investigation would likely require months to complete.

Around the WHL Prince Albert acquired a pair of players. First, the Raiders picked up 20-year-old forward Colton Heffley from

the following night at home against Victoria.

“There’s an outside shot he could get a game in here before Christmas,” Constantine said. “We just need a little bit more from the therapist and the doctor to approve that. If it’s not before, it’s definitely the first game after Christmas. That should be doable.”

But while Leedahl is itching to get back into games, he’s not going to push things just to be able to play before the Christmas break.

“I think I’m ahead of schedule, and I should be in the lineup pretty quick,” Leedahl said. “You always want to get back into the games.

But I don’t want to rush it along and get hurt again.”

If Leedahl isn’t able to get into a game before Christmas, he’ll likely return in Everett’s first game following the break on Dec. 27 at home against Vancouver.

Check out Nick Patterson’s Silvertips blog at http://www. heraldnet.com/ silvertipsblog, and follow him on Twitter at @NickHPatterson.

Kelowna for a fourth-round pick in the 2016 bantam draft.

Then Prince Albert acquired 19-year-old defenseman Raymond Grewel from Prince George in exchange for a 12th-round pick in the 2015 bantam draft. The moves help compensate for the loss of 19-year-old defenseman Hunter Warner, who is set for season-ending shoulder surgery. … Prince George waived 20-year-old goaltender Jared Rathjen to get down to the limit of three overagers.

The Cougars had too many after forward Zach Pochiro was reassigned to the team by the NHL’s St. Louis Blues. … Calgary’s Connor Rankin was named the WHL Player of the Week. The 20-yearold forward had six goals and three assists as the Hitmen went 3-0. … Kelowna’s Rourke Chartier was named the WHL Player of the Month for November. The 18-yearold forward had 18 goals and 10 assists in 14 games. … Regina’s Daniel Wapple was named the WHL Goaltender of the Month for November.

The 19-year-old went 8-1-0-0 with a 2.19 goals against average and .931 save percentage.

Leaders Points — Rourke Chartier (Kelowna), Nick Merkley (Kelowna) 51; goals — Chartier 32; assists — Merkley 41; penalty minutes — Keegan Kanzig (Calgary) 86; wins — Jordan Papirny (Brandon)19; goals against average — Taran Kozun (Seattle) 2.14; save percentage — Kozun, Jackson Whistle (Kelowna), Eric Comrie (Tri-City) .921.

Check out Nick Patterson’s Silvertips blog at http://www. heraldnet.com/silvertipsblog, and follow him on Twitter at @NickHPatterson.

SILVERTIPS | Update Today’s Game Opponent: Tri-City Americans When: 7:05 p.m.

Where: Toyota Center, Kennewick Radio: KRKO (1380 AM) Live blog: www.heraldnet.com/silvertipsblog

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(record, stats through Saturday

EVERETT

TRI-CITY

17-7-3-1 (38 pts.)

16-13-0-0 (32 pts.)

1st in U.S. Div. 3rd in U.S. 0-2-0-0................. Streak ...............1-0-0-0 4-5-1-0.................Last 10...............5-5-0-1 1-0-0-1...........Head to head .........1-1-0-0 20.7 (t-9th)....... Power play ..... 20.0 (13th) 74.7 (20th) ....... Penalty kill ....... 85.7 (3rd)

Top Skaters EVERETT

TRI CITY

RW Nikita Scherbak (14 goals, 23 assists) D Ben Betker (1 goal, 6 assists) C Ivan Nikolishin (8 goals, 20 assists)

RW Richard Nejezchleb (7 goals, 11 assists) C Parker Bowles (9 goals, 23 assists) RW Beau McCue (12 goals, 14 assists)

No. 1 Goaltenders EVERETT

TRI-CITY

Austin Lotz Eric Comrie 13-5-1-1, 2.70, .905 14-10-0-0, 2.50, .921

Key Injuries/Suspensions Everett: LW Dawson Leedahl (knee), D Tristen Pfeifer (upper body), RW Logan Aasman (upper body).

Tri-City: None.

13 Sounders players available in expansion draft

By Don Ruiz The News Tribune

Thirteen Seattle Sounders veterans will be available Wednesday when Orlando City SC and New York City FC begin stocking the rosters through the Major League Soccer expansion draft.

A half dozen of those players were at least spot starters for Seattle during the justcompleted MLS regular season. Among them are Leo Gonzalez (20 starts) and Zach Scott (16), who have been Sounders since the 2009 expansion season, along with Jalil Anibaba (14), Kenny Cooper (14), Dylan Remick (eight) and Micheal

Azira (six). Also on Seattle’s unprotected list were Tristan Bowen, Josh Ford, Aaron Long, Jimmy Ockford, Kevin Parsemain, and Cam Weaver. A club spokesman said 2013 first-round draft pick (10th overall) Eriq Zavaleta also is available, although his name was not on the original list released by league.

MLS teams are allowed to protect 11 players each.

Seattle chose to protect Osvaldo Alonso, Chad Barrett, Clint Dempsey, Brad Evans, Stefan Frei, Chad Marshall, Obafemi Martins, Lamar Neagle, Marco Pappa, Gonzalo Pineda and Andy Rose. Four other Sounders are automatically

safe from expansion selection due to their status as homegrown or Generation Adidas developmental players: Aaron Kovar, Sean Okoli, DeAndre Yedlin and Damion Lowe.

“There’s a lot that goes into it with regards to age and player form, contracts, the future of the team and where we’re going,” Seattle sporting director Chris Henderson said on the club website. “We’ve had some really tough decisions, and you can only protect 11, so there’s many times we wish we could protect 15, but we had to cut off the line.”

The expansion drafts will begin at 11 a.m.

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PREP ATHLETES OF THE WEEK Zach Hatch Glacier Peak | Boys Basketball The junior scored 29 points and made eight 3-pointers in a season-opening victory over Snohomish last Tuesday and chipped in 13 points and three more 3s in a win over Jackson on Friday as the Grizzlies finished the first week of the season 2-0.

Gabrielle Grandbois Marysville Getchell | Girls Basketball The sophomore scored 24 points in a season-opening victory over Cascade, 18 in a win over Mariner and 22 in a blowout over Granite Falls.

Grandbois’ strong start to the season has helped the Chargers to a 3-0 record.

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Cody Vigoren (left) spars with Marquise Postlewaite during a Lake Stevens wrestling practice on Monday.

Winning isn’t everything Despite the tremendous success enjoyed by the Lake Stevens wrestling program over the years, results are not the Vikings’ primary focus

By Brian Adamowsky Herald Writer

LAKE STEVENS — For as much winning as the Lake Stevens wrestling program has done in coach Brent Barnes’ tenure with the Vikings, he insists that he and his staff talk very little about winning and losing in the practice room.

“Our overall philosophy is not about winning and losing,” he said.

“We don’t allow that to get in the way of getting better and enjoying the sport. We’re very careful about the vocabulary we use with the kids and try to get them to live in the moment and develop camaraderie.”

It certainly has paid dividends in terms of trophies.

Lake Stevens won the Class 4A team title at Mat Classic last season for the second consecutive season and has topped the state’s largest classification six times since 2005-06 and nine times since 1998-99.

The squad that is aiming for a third consecutive team title this season will be headlined by junior

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Michael Soler, who is looking for a personal three-peat to go along with the team’s, and senior Cody Vigoren, also a returning state champion.

Soler would become Lake Stevens’ first three-time state champion since Josh Heinzer (2008-2010) should he conquer the field at 132 pounds.

It will be a sizable jump in weight class for Soler, who competed at 106 pounds as a freshman and 113 last year as a sophomore.

“I’m not too worried about it,” said Soler, whose older brother Eric won a pair of state titles for the Vikings. “I wasn’t trying to go up in weight, but I grew and spent a lot of time in the weight room this summer. I’ll be able to do the same things I would normally do at the higher weight.”

Barnes said Soler’s insatiable desire to improve and learn the craft of wrestling have served him well in his first two seasons at Lake Stevens.

“He’s a true student of the sport, and you’re not going to find

anyone who enjoys the process more than Michael Soler,” Barnes said. “Moving up to 132 will be another challenge for him, but he’s been dealing with pressure and expectations his whole life. He’s a competitor and a gamer. He knows that you win some and lose some, and he’ll have opportunities beyond high school wrestling.”

Vigoren, who will wrestle at 195 pounds again this season but may occasionally bump up to 220 if the team needs him to, already has secured his wrestling future, signing with the University of Wyoming for next season. A longtime wrestler and baseball player, Vigoren only recently dedicated himself to the mat year-round.

“He’s really coming into his own,” Barnes said of Vigoren. “He’s so physical, and such a great leader with great character.”

Vigoren said that wrestling in such a tradition-rich program as Lake Stevens doesn’t add any extra pressure to whatever he already puts on himself, but provides

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go with anyone on his feet where his athleticism can shine.”

Iversen said Page’s athleticism allows him to take chances most wrestlers wouldn’t, and that he is at his very best in scramble situations.

Drew Hatch | Sr. 182 pounds | Marysville Pilchuck

Jeremy Nygard | Jr. 132 pounds | Arlington

After placing third at 106 pounds as a Class 4A competitor last season, Nygard is making the jump all the way to 132 for the bulk of his junior season.

Eagles coach Rick Iversen said Nygard likely will drop to 126 for the postseason, but won’t have to struggle all season to make that lower weight, and Arlington is high on freshman Gavin Rork at 126.

Iversen said Nygard, who has traveled to national tournaments and camps in the offseason and would like to enter the national pipeline following high school, is best on his feet thanks to a great deal of freestyle experience.

“That cost him a little bit last year because he couldn’t get off the bottom,” Iversen said. “We’re working really hard on that this year, because we don’t think anyone can take him down. And if you can’t take him down or hold him down, you can’t beat him.”

Alex Rodorigo | Sr. 126 pounds | Lake Stevens Rodorigo is the latest in his family to be a team captain at Lake Stevens, following in the footsteps of his older brother Ryan and two of his uncles, Cully and Chris Pratt. Now Alex is a co-captain for the 2014-15 edition of the Vikings alongside Cody Vigoren, and it is very important to him to help make the team a family in its pursuit of a third consecutive Class 4A state team title.

“If we get to know each other really well and push each other, it will be easier for us to reach our goals,” Rodorigo said. “The individual titles are great, but the team title is something that everyone remembers.”

Lake Stevens coach Brent Barnes said Rodorigo is best from the top position, and he will be working on wrestling from his feet this season.

“He’s a talented kid. A lot of it is mental with him, just believing he can do it and being stingy

benchmarks for the future.

“I don’t really look at it as extra pressure but as something to look forward to,” he said.

Vigoren would like to work on getting to opponents’ legs more this year, and being able to do so will widen his repertoire of moves when he’s wrestling on his feet.

“I want to be able to take down anyone,” he said.

The Vikings finished third over the weekend at the prestigious Sidney Eagle Invitational in Montana, placing behind the hosts and Poway High School of California.

Barnes has put together a very competitive schedule for the Vikings that will see them wrestle dual meets against Class 4A powers Moses Lake and Tahoma, as well as out-of-state programs such as Hermiston (Ore.).

Lake Stevens also will compete at the Doc Buchanan Invitational in Clovis, Calif. on Jan. 9-10, an event Barnes called one of the top five tournaments in the United States.

In stark contrast to Page’s scrambling ability and penchant for the spectacular, Hatch is a classic grinder.

“He just wears opponents out,” Craig Iversen said.

“He has a great feel to pin and has done an incredible amount of wrestling since he was very young. We just need to get Drew healthy and back to where he can keep matches going with his conditioning, but he can grind with anyone.”

Hatch also has placed at Mat Classic in each of the past three seasons and is looking to cap his high school career with a state championship.

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Jeremy Nygard of Arlington placed third at 106 pounds at last season’s Class 4A state tournament.

He moves up to 132 pounds this year.

with points,” Barnes said.

Killian Page | Sr. 170 pounds | Marysville Pilchuck On the heels of a hugely successful football season that saw the Tomahawks reach the 3A state semifinals, Page will try to place at Mat Classic for the fourth time — only this time at the top of the podium.

Marysville Pilchuck coach Craig Iversen said once Page gets past his lingering injuries from football and gets into wrestling shape, he’ll be a contender for a state championship thanks to a free-wheeling style that draws greatly on Page’s substantial athletic gifts.

“You don’t get that level of athlete very often in the wrestling room,” Iversen said of Page. “He’s great on big moves and big throws, and I’ve never seen a wrestler with his balance before. He needs to work on wrestling from underneath a little bit more, but he can

Ely Malametz | Sr. 170 pounds | Cedarcrest First-year Cedarcrest coach Mark Ward is counting on Malametz’s technical ability to carry the senior to a second consecutive state championship, even after moving up in weight class.

“I’ve been around wrestling a long time, and Ely is one of the more gifted high school wrestlers I’ve seen,” said Ward, who wrestled collegiately at Southern Illinois and is returning to coaching after a decade away from the sport. “He’s really slick, and he really knows his style of wrestling. He has a lot of determination to get back up on that podium this year, and I think his style is going to be better at 170 than it was at 160.”

Malametz’s speed and skill play bigger in the higher weight classes, where technical wrestling tends to take a slight back seat to brute force.

“His technique is flawless from his feet, and I think he’s just going to blow by a lot of kids,” Ward said. “But like any high school kid, conditioning is a big part of wrestling and being up a weight class will be tougher for him. Moving around kids that are 10 pounds bigger doesn’t seem like a lot, but it really is. We’ll have to bring his conditioning up to a higher level.”

Brian Adamowsky, Herald Writer

Jasen Bergesen Everett | Wrestling The senior was the only local champion at the White River Classic, winning the 182-pound division. Bergesen and the Seagulls are off to a 4-0 start this season.

The Athletes of the Week are selected by The Herald sports staff with input from area coaches.

POWER POLL The Herald’s weekly high school basketball power poll for area boys and girls teams, with the team name and total points.

Boys 1. Stanwood 44(2) 2. Glacier Peak 41(1) 3. Marysville Pilchuck 39 4. Arlington 38 5. King’s 32 6. Kamiak 30 7. Cascade 28 8. Mountlake Terrace 23 9. Mariner 18 t-10. Snohomish 17 t-10. Arch. Murphy 17 12. Shorewood 14 13. Shorecrest 6 t-14. Ed.-Woodway 4 t-14. Jackson 4

Girls 1. Lynnwood 45(3) 2. Glacier Peak 41 3. Arlington 40 t-4. Lake Stevens 33 t-4. Snohomish 33 t-6. Ed.-Woodway 30 t-6. Kamiak 30 8. Stanwood 22 t-9. King’s 18 t-9. Shorecrest 18 11. Monroe 15 12. Marysville Getchell 14 13. Shorewood 8 14. Arch. Murphy 7 15. Everett 6 Voters: Herald writers David Krueger and Aaron Lommers, and Steve Willits of Sound Live Sports Network.

For their individual votes, visit www.heraldnet.com.

Sultan beats Foster in OT Herald Staff SULTAN — The Sultan boys basketball outscored Foster 15-4 in the overtime period to earn its first victory of the season with a 82-71 win in a nonconference matchup Monday night.

The Turks overcame a seven point fourth quarter deficit with clutch shooting from Ronnie Skorka.

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my daughter was a cheerleader and my son played, so that was a fun year for us.”

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“Every year was different and every group was unique in its own way,” Ondriezek said of his teams. “I just had fun every year.”

During the course of his coaching career at Mariner, Ondriezek made a tremendous impact on the school’s student-athletes, athletic director Nate Duchesne said in a press release.

“Coach Ondriezek instilled discipline in his

athletes, both on and off the field,” Duchesne said.

“He held his athletes to a high standard in the hallway, the classroom, and in the community. Coach O worked tirelessly with the Mariner Marauder Booster Club to provide gear and essentials to athletes in need. He saw to it that no student-athlete was ever left out. Coach O loved his players and he treated them as his own. We would like to thank Coach Ondriezek for representing Mariner High School so well — his impact on the football program and the Mariner community will be missed.”

Mariner plans to hire a new coach before the first of year, Duchesne said. Ondriezek said he’s pleased the transition will be a quick one. “(It) was important to me that there was a very smooth transition and that there was not a big wait time for our athletes so that they just felt comfortable that the program was going to continue to move forward,” Ondriezek said. “A new coach will be named soon and all the assistants are coming back, so the program is just going to continue.”

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Houston fired head football coach Associated Press HOUSTON — The University of Houston fired football coach Tony Levine on Monday after three years and a 21-17 overall record.

The university said defensive coordinator David Gibbs has been named interim coach as the Cougars prepare for a Jan. 2 matchup against Pittsburgh in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl in Fort Worth.

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Roosevelt—Nancy Sun 2, Emma Seymour 6, Serena Tony 5, Julia Ramirez 2, Elina Karjalainen 2, Lucy Morril 17, Brenna Christenson 2, Emily Zhai 9, Jojo Huletz 2. Everett—Megan Dedrick 6, Brittany Pedigo 3, Sydney Taggart 10, Kate Pohland 2, Alexis Rutter 4, Katy Hedington 6. 3-point goals—Morril 3, Dedrick 2, Taggart 2. Records—Roosevelt 1-2 overall.

Everett 1-2.