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Everett moves to block courthouse work Parking concerns and miscommunication prompt the City Council to pass an emergency ordinance.

By Noah Haglund

while staff study Everett’s downtown parking needs.

“This will give us an opportunity to look at all of these questions anew to see what is really best for downtown,” Councilman Paul Roberts said.

The action passed unanimously, with all seven council members present.

At the county, worries already are running high about keeping courthouse construction within

miscommunication.

The city’s new rules require the county to include more than 300 parking spaces. That’s nearly 10 times as many as included in current designs for the eight-story structure.

The city’s interim regulation is set to remain in effect for a year,

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EVERETT — The Everett City Council passed an emergency ordinance Wednesday that blocks construction of Snohomish County’s future downtown courthouse over parking concerns and

its $162 million budget. There’s no wiggle room for the number of spaces the city is proposing; county staff earlier estimated that supplying 300 spaces would cost an extra $20 million.

The county hoped to start construction in mid-2015. That timetable now appears to be in doubt.

Council Chairman Dave Somers said he and some of his colleagues were surprised to

learn recently that Everett was concerned about parking for the new courthouse. Council members aired their dismay during an public meeting Monday.

“I think there has been an incredible lack of communication,” Somers said. “I think we need to engage the city on how to move forward.”

County Councilman Terry See BLOCK, Page A2

Moving ahead through music Trail

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rebuild project delayed Officials postpone work on a mile-long stretch of the Whitehorse Trail to allow more time for planning and permitting, and monitoring river levels and washouts.

By Kari Bray Herald Writer

mother, a victim of domestic violence who was homeless during her pregnancy, put him in foster care.

Julie and Lynn Gelo have six children. They’ve also adopted Brandan and nine others with special needs through the foster care system. The family is planning a “small Christmas” this year with at least 16 people coming for dinner.

Julie Gelo, 61, works as a child welfare training manager and in the fetal alcohol clinic at the University of Washington. Lynn, 71, is a machinist.

When the Gelos got Brandan

OSO — The timeline for rebuilding a stretch of the Whitehorse Trail wiped out by the deadly mudslide that tore through this community in March has been pushed back a year.

Officials need additional time for planning and permitting.

Meanwhile, they continue to monitor river levels and multiple washouts along the trail.

The county originally hoped to rebuild the mile-long segment of trail this summer, parks and recreation director Tom Teigen said. After conversations with state and federal teams in late November, it became clear that such a timeline wasn’t realistic, he said.

Instead, the county aims to finish plans and paperwork in 2015, followed by construction of the trail in summer 2016. The goal is to install at least two new culverts to help manage water flow in the area, similar to the approach taken in rebuilding Highway 530 through the slide zone.

The county is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency on trail repairs in the slide area. They need to factor an altered landscape and unpredictable river into their plans.

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Special needs student Brandan Gelo is a rock star at Jackson High Herald Writer

MILL CREEK — He’s overcoming the odds to the beat of his own drum.

Brandan Gelo has broken the glass ceiling at Mill Creek’s Jackson High, exceeding expectations for special education students. Now, the school culture is changing as others follow the senior’s lead.

Doctors told Brandan’s adoptive parents, Julie and Lynn Gelo, of Bothell, he probably would not live to the age of 1. He was not expected to walk, talk, tie his shoes, use the bathroom on his own or respond to people.

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Now, at 19, Brandan is shows off his musical talent — strumming his guitar, playing piano and keeping the beat on drums — every chance he gets. He’s gone beyond responding to people, making many friends and becoming a leader in the school band.

“He’s a miracle,” Julie Gelo said. “Special ed kids often get shoved off to the side. Music has saved his life.”

As a freshman, Brandan was the first musician with developmental disabilities to play in the school band. This year, more than a dozen others with special needs are playing percussion and performing at games with

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Parents and teachers agree that connecting those with special needs to the rest of the student body has benefited both groups. There aren’t many other chances for them to take classes together.

“It’s kind of like a family,” Brandan said of his bandmates.

“They keep me safe and protected. They’re always there for me.”

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Emergency calls in England run the gamut The Washington Post Police in Manchester, England, want residents to stop calling the emergency line for problems that are decidedly not emergencies.

Oh, you want an example?

How about four? The department released the audio of four different calls to 999 — the equivalent to 911 in the United States — that feature disputes over a vending machine, a store’s return policy for sneakers, a hedgehog and pizza.

The police are calling the four calls “irresponsible,” and note that frivolous emergency calls tie up resources that could

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Ryan said it was “disconcerting to hear all of this at the end of the year.”

“I would be really surprised that Everett would do this out of the blue,” Ryan said.

Discussions about the courthouse were taking place between County Executive John Lovick’s administration and Mayor Ray Stephanson’s office.

Earlier this week, Deputy County Executive Mark Ericks said he’d been in close contact with Stephanson and saw no reason that the project wouldn’t move ahead.

“If I were sitting in the mayor’s seat, I would have some of the same concerns,” he said.

All told, the future courthouse would displace 130 existing downtown parking spaces. People who work in the existing courthouse already use the county’s

otherwise go to actual emergencies. In England, citizens can call another number, 101, for non-emergency police matters like a stolen car or property damage.

None of these crimes would be appropriate 101 calls either, it should be noted.

But there’s another reason the calls are worth attention: they are also definitely pretty funny.

The first begins: “I put some money in this vending machine, and they’re refusing to give me my money back, and I need that money to make an emergency call,” begins one caller. “You’ll have to come sort it out.” The

dispatcher replies that the vending machine problem is “absolutely not” a reason to call the police emergency line. “You need to contact the vending machine company, the dispatcher continues. I’m going to clear the line now because you’re holding it up for people who have genuine emergencies.”

The caller responds with an obscene suggestion.

In another, a caller tells the dispatcher that there’s a “hedgehog in the backyard, and we’re a bit scared.”

After asking the caller to clarify whether the animal was alive or dead (it was alive!) the dispatcher says,

“well that’s where the hedgehogs live, in gardens.”

She adds, “the hedgehogs are good for your garden. They kill your slugs.” The caller replies “yeah, but we don’t want our slugs to get killed, but we’re a bit scared.” The dispatcher tells the caller there’s “not much we can do” about the hedgehog before hanging up.

“Hiya, can I have the police at Sports Direct, they’ve stole me money,” begins another request from an irate Manchester resident. “They won’t give me money for these trainers what I bought.” The caller repeatedly insists

that what appears to be a dispute over a return policy at a retail store is “theft,” as the dispatcher tries to explain that the dispute is a consumer, and not a criminal issue. The call continues for nearly three minutes; you should probably just listen to this one.

A fourth caller rings up the police emergency line because his pizza is late.

Even the caller admits that the reason for his call “isn’t an emergency,” but proceeds anyway. “I ordered a pizza 45 minutes ago, and it’s still not been delivered to me.” The dispatcher tells the caller to contact the pizza place.

underground parking garage.

“We’ve always said this is going to be a replacement building,” Ericks said.

“We’re going to build one, tear down the other one.

This will all offset.”

Designs for the new building show about threedozen secured spaces intended for judges and other staff. Much of the new courthouse site is now used as a parking lot. With that lot gone, about 100 spaces would be lost.

Earlier this week, the deputy executive said he was under the impression the city would allow the county to perform a parking study instead of mandating the extra spaces. City council members removed the study option before Wednesday’s vote.

Stephanson said he had been led to believe that the future courthouse would include substantially more parking.

“In the spring, both the executive’s office and the County Council represented to me that they

were going to provide possibly 300 parking spaces in association with the courthouse,” Stephanson said after Wednesday’s meeting.

It was only in early November when Ericks told him otherwise, he said, adding that the deputy executive said county council members wouldn’t support the parking the city was expecting.

That contradicts what county council members said earlier this week. They insisted they were caught unaware by the city’s demands.

“I take people at their word when they express something to me,” the mayor said.

The new parking requirement refers generally to “large government administrative offices” downtown. In practice, it appears to apply only to the proposed courthouse.

Previous zoning regulations, which Everett adopted for its central business district in 2006, eliminated requirements for off-street parking for

non-residential buildings.

The new rules call for one off-street parking space per 800 square feet. The proposed courthouse includes 250,000 square feet, which equals roughly 312 spaces under the city formula.

City leaders are prepared to discuss parking regulations with the county and could change the interim regulation, if appropriate, Stephanson said.

“We’ve just reached a critical point in our downtown where government buildings shouldn’t have a negative impact on private businesses,” he said.

The county did not send anyone to Wednesday’s city meeting to comment.

Likewise, nobody from the city raised parking issues during recent courthouse updates scheduled regularly during County Council meetings.

While Lovick’s administration is taking heat for the communication problems surrounding the courthouse, his team inherited an already troubled project.

After the former

executive, Aaron Reardon, resigned amid controversy, Lovick’s staff revisited courthouse plans at the council’s request. Ericks and others raised questions about the plans that had emerged under Reardon’s watch. Council members opted to radically alter the plans.

Instead of putting the new courthouse next door to the existing 1967 building they hope to replace, they chose to locate it across the street and about a block east. The site they chose is a county-owned parking lot on Wall Street, between Rockefeller and Oakes avenues. The lot supplies parking demand for events at Xfinity Arena, across the street.

The future courthouse site also required buying out six smaller properties on the same block, which included some parking as well as law offices and other businesses.

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

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214 Everett employees will be getting 2% raises Herald staff EVERETT — Some city employees will be getting a 2 percent cost of living raise.

The figure is based on increases in consumer price

index in the entire Seatt l e -Ta c o m a - B r e m e r t o n metropolitan area, which is defined by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, said Meghan Pembroke, the city’s communications director.

The increase affects 214 city employees ranging from lowlevel clerks and laborers to the city’s department heads. That is fewer than 20 percent of the city’s total work force, most of whom belong to a labor union.

The city’s $357.6 million budget for 2015 includes money for 1,167 full-time positions.

The Everett City Council approved the increase at its Dec. 17 meeting. The city is also in the process of negotiating

new contracts with all six of its unions, Pembroke said.

In addition, the city is conducting studies of its fire, police and transit departments as part of a broader initiative to reduce its long-term structural deficit.

They call me ‘Mister Christmas’ Stanwood man‘s family name brought teasing, respect and curiosity throughout his life.

By Julie Muhlstein Herald Writer

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The Kristoferson family of the Kristoferson Farm on Camano Island has been named this year’s Wildlife Farmer of the Year for the state of Washington by the Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Conservation Commission.

Keeping it wild

Camano family honored for sustainable farm stewardship

By Kari Bray Herald Writer

CAMANO ISLAND — Mona Campbell and Nancy O’Neal are part of generation four, along with two more sisters and one brother. Generations five and six — a group of 10, so far — are around, zip-lining through the trees and helping with harvests.

The Kristoferson Farm has been handed down from one generation to the next since 1912.

The five siblings who manage the property hope to pass something else down to their children and grandchildren: a willingness to preserve the beautiful land they farm.

The family harvests hay, lavender and lumber. Since 2011, the farm also has been known for its zip-line tour, Canopy

They sell candles made by nuns in Stanwood, soaps crafted in Snohomish, and honey, wooden pens and lamps from Camano Island.

Tours Northwest. About 40 people work at the farm during its peak season, when zip-lining and harvests overlap.

The Washington Association of Conservation Districts chose the Kristofersons as the state’s 2014 Wildlife Farmer of the Year. The award has been given annually for more than 20 years.

It recognizes farmers who work to improve wildlife habitats and promote sustainable farming, said Monte Marti, district

manager for the Snohomish Conservation District.

Kristoferson Farm stood out for a number of reasons, said Ryan Williams, the district’s program integration manager.

They’ve removed invasive species and diseased trees from the woods on their property, built bridges and other creek crossings to widen waterways for fish and planted thousands of trees and shrubs along a creek that bisects their land. The U.S. and

state departments of agriculture have certified the farm as organic, meaning they do not use synthetic pesticides, herbicides or genetically modified plants.

“They’ve also helped us out over the last five years or so by hosting events to help us educate others about these kinds of farming and forestry practices,” Williams said.

The family has a stewardship plan that looks up to 10 years ahead for conservation projects, Campbell said.

“As our generation came into managing the farm, what we became aware of is the need to really manage it,” Campbell said. “Even with the forest, you can’t just leave it. There’s a lot you need to do to keep a healthy See WILD, Page A4

Report: State carbon emissions dropped in 2011

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SEATTLE — Greenhouse gas emissions in Washington state dropped by about 4.6 percent between 2010 and 2011, led by reductions in emissions from the electricity sector, a new state report shows.

The latest data shows that about 91.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide or its equivalent was released in 2011, compared to about 96.1 million metric tons

the year before.

Emissions are on a downward trend, but still about 4 percent higher than in 1990.

The report comes as Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing sweeping policies to combat climate change, including a cap-andtrade program that would charge large industrial polluters for each metric ton of emissions they release.

Republican lawmakers say the cap-and-trade program would raise gas prices and hurt

Reminder to recycle tree Don’t forget to contact your local Boy Scout troop to schedule a free recycling pick-up or drop-off for your Christmas tree after the holiday. Times and dates vary by locations in Snohomish County.

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businesses and consumers. They say the state is already a lowcarbon producing state because of its extensive hydropower, and that there are other, cheaper ways to reduce carbon pollution.

The state’s emissions have fluctuated each year, but overall have decreased since 2007, according to the inventory, which the Department of Ecology posted on its website last week. The agency is required to complete the report every two years.

com for a map, or call the local Boy Scout headquarters in Everett at 425-338-0380.

Japan opportunity for students: The Edmonds Sister City Commission is accepting applications from students who are interested in visiting Japan in the summer of 2015.

Up to 15 students between 14 and 18 years old will be ac-

The decline between 2007 and 2011 is due to actions the state has taken to reduce emissions, including requiring major utilities get a portion of their energy from renewable sources, said Hedia Adelsman, special assistant to Ecology Director Maia Bellon.

She noted that the state’s carbon emissions have grown from 1990 levels, when the state released about 88.4 million

cepted for the trip, scheduled for July 20 to Aug. 3. Still will stay with families in Hekinan, Japan with day trips to visit local schools and city features as well as trips to Nagoya and Kyoto, the religious and cultural center of Japan. The cost of the trip for students has ranged from $1,100$1,700, depending on airfare.

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New Year’s ball on Camano Island: The Camano Center is hosting its annual Black & White Ball on New Year’s Eve. The event runs from 8 p.m. to midnight on Dec. 31.

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STANWOOD — He grew up experiencing a unique sort of playground taunt.

“Kids would call me anything but Christmas. They would call me Easter or Thanksgiving. That got me into a lot of fights,” the Stanwood man said Monday.

“The older I got, the more respect I got. Nobody teased me about my last name.”

At 49, Danny Christmas has long been accustomed to his attention-getting surname.

“It’s been my name my whole life, so it’s pretty normal,” said Christmas, who works for Senior Aerospace AMT in Arlington.

Unusual but not unheard of, the last name Christmas shows up in sports and politics, literature and the movies.

Joe Christmas is a key character — literary types see him as Christ-like — in the William Faulkner novel “Light in August.”

Dionte Christmas plays professional basketball in Europe.

The late Randall “Randy” Christmas was once mayor of Miami.

There’s a character called Lee Christmas in the film “The Expendables,” and Jim Carrey plays dunderhead Lloyd Christmas in “Dumb and Dumber.”

None of that helps Danny Christmas figure out the origin of his last name.

“My dad did some research.

We’re English, Danish, Dutch and Russian — and 100 percent German on my mother’s side,” said Christmas, who is divorced and has a 9-year-old son, George Christmas.

His sister, whose name changed when she married, has done some searching for their Christmas roots on Ancestry. com. According to one online source, Surnamedb.com, the name has been linked to both a job description of people who arranged festivities long ago and to a Christmas birthday.

With Christmas as a last name, first names can be fun. The Stanwood man said his uncle’s first wife was named Mary, “then they divorced and he married another Mary Christmas.”

Raised in Denver, Danny Christmas said his father was a firefighter in Lakewood, Colorado. “My dad used to play Santa Claus. They had a big Christmas thing at the firehouse,” he said.

He hasn’t played Santa yet, but expects it won’t be long before his beard turns white.

At his son’s school, Twin City Elementary, “they call me Mr. Christmas,” he said. “I’m Danny, not mister. My dad is Mr. Christmas.”

Julie Muhlstein: 425-339-3460; jmuhlstein@heraldnet.com.

to play live big band music.

A $25 ticket includes hors d’oeuvres and champagne for a New Year’s toast. Tickets are sold at the door but reservations can be made by calling 360-387-0222.

Camano Center is run by the nonprofit Camano Senior Services Association and hosts a variety of community events throughout the year.

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forest and farm. You have to have a list because the time goes by so quickly.”

The Snohomish Conservation District has worked with the Kristoferson family for about 12 years, Marti said.

“They’ve really bought into being good stewards of the land,” he said. “And they really do try to be community leaders.”

O’Neal takes pride in the bright green, rectangular award she and her siblings brought home earlier this month. The

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family name stands out in gold script.

“We were just so psyched,” she said.

The award was presented to O’Neal, Campbell, Betsy Kristoferson, Kris Kristoferson and Melissa Elliot.

Their great grandfather, a Swedish immigrant from a family of dairy farmers, bought the Camano Island farm and a dairy that has since been sold. Barns went up in 1914, including the building now used as a reception area for visitors.

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A big, friendly cat named Barney watches over the shop, sprawled on a counter made out of a log from this generation’s first timber harvest. Windows look

out at fields that slope gently down to East Camano Drive.

“We’re just so fortunate to be stewarding such an amazing place,” Campbell

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SULTAN — The arrest of two suspected thieves in Sultan on Wednesday led to the recovery of a stolen package and a backpack of stolen mail.

Around 7:30 a.m., a neighbor along Date Avenue reported seeing a man and a woman stealing mail.

They also took a package off a porch, according to police.

Snohomish County sheriff’s deputies used information from the witness to catch up with the suspects a few minutes later.

The man, 30, and woman, 26, both of Sultan, were booked into the Snohomish County Jail.

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A state law requires Washington to reduce overall emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, make a 25 percent cut in 1990 levels by 2035, and make greater reductions by 2050.

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“The tour is integral to the farm and helps us keep up with a lot of farm activities,” Campbell said.

“We’re kind of on the cusp of expanding what we do on the farm side.”

They plan to grow more produce at the farm for direct farm-to-table sales, Campbell said. They also hope to build an event space at some point.

For now, they’re weathering the winter months.

From the barn, they sell candles made by nuns in Stanwood, soaps crafted in Snohomish, and honey, wooden pens and lamps from Camano Island.

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Eight of nine justices agreed that it was inappropriate for the trial court to impose exceptional sentences. A smaller majority — five justices — also said the pair was wrongly convicted of possessing a gun Clemmons took from one of the officers.

The justices said that although Clemmons brought the gun into Nelson’s home, there wasn’t sufficient evidence that either Davis or Nelson had control over it. They sent the cases back to Pierce County Superior Court for new sentencing hearings.

“Davis and Nelson had only passing possession of Clemmons’s firearm,” wrote Justice Debra Stephens.

“The evidence shows that Nelson put the gun into a shopping bag on the counter and Davis later handed the bag to Clemmons.

Clemmons remained on the premises the entire time and immediately after cleaning his gunshot wounds and changing his shirt demanded his gun.”

Clemmons, a felon from Arkansas, ambushed Sgt. Mark Renninger and officers Greg Richards, Tina Griswald and Ronald Owens as they sat in a coffee shop preparing for their Sunday morning shift on Nov. 29, 2009. After killing the three others, Clemmons was shot as he wrestled with Richards but managed to kill Richards and take his gun.

Clemmons fled in a pickup truck driven by one friend, Dorcus Allen, who is serving a life sentence for his role in the murders.

Davis then drove him to Nelson’s home in Auburn, where Clemmons arrived banging on doors and windows and saying he’d been shot. He told Nelson what he had done.

She helped him bandage his wounds as police launched a massive manhunt that ended two nights later, when a lone Seattle patrolman encountered Clemmons on a city street and shot him dead.

This office is going to aggressively prosecute cop killers and anyone who helps cop killers.

— Mark Lindquist Pierce County prosecutor

In all, six people were eventually charged with helping Clemmons after the shootings, including giving him rides and cellphones and making arrangements for him to flee the state. One of the six was acquitted, and Davis’ brother, Douglas Davis, had his convictions — which were on gun charges, not rendering criminal assistance — reversed last year.

“While there are parts of this opinion that are discouraging to the community, these defendants were held accountable,” said Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist.

“They’ve done their time, and the message was sent. This office is going to aggressively prosecute cop killers and anyone who helps cop killers.”

In reversing the exceptional sentences for Davis and Nelson, the justices said the trial court inappropriately applied an aggravating factor: that the rendering of criminal help to Clemmons “involved a destructive and foreseeable impact on persons other than the victim.”

Eight of the justices said that the “victim: of such criminal assistance is society at large, not any specific person.

Only Stephens would have upheld the exceptional sentences, saying the crime did have a destructive and foreseeable impact on the officers’ families.

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The National Weather Service says 3 to 5 inches will fall in the Cascades Wednesday before tapering off by late afternoon.

The Transportation Department says drivers Wednesday morning can expect snow in the passes.

Snow and slush were reported on Snoqualmie and White passes, and compact snow and ice on Stevens Pass.

Forecasters say the rain will be ending Thursday.

Cloudy skies are forecast for Christmas across Washington. The weather will transition to a colder, drier pattern over the weekend.

Seattle: Winter ferry schedule to begin Sunday The winter sailing schedule for Washington state ferries goes into effect Sunday.

The service to Sidney, British Columbia, is suspended in the winter, and there are fewer sailings on some Puget Sound routes.

The ferry service also said in 2015 it’s starting online vehicle reservations for travel to and from the San Juan Islands.

Olympia: Illnesses linked to ice cream Washington State Health Department spokesman Donn Moyer said two men in King County were hospitalized after eating products made by the Snohomish Gourmet Ice Cream company. Both are in their 50s and have underlying medical conditions. They are recovering out of the hospital.

The company has voluntarily recalled nearly a year’s worth of ice cream and related products because of possible listeria contamination.

The recall announced Tuesday covers products made from Jan. 1 until Dec. 15. Products include all flavors and sizes of ice cream, gelato, custard and sorbet, as well as Emerald & Spruce Ice Cream and Top Pot Hand Forged Ice Cream.

Gig Harbor: Kasem’s widow sues hospital The widow of radio legend Casey Kasem is suing a hospital for the medical records of the last weeks of his life. The News Tribune reported the lawsuit filed for Jeannie Kasem earlier this month in Pierce County Superior Court seeks medical charts and records of medications and people who visited him.

Kasem died June 15 at the age of 82 at St. Anthony Hospital in Gig Harbor.

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The mudslide that killed 43 people and destroyed the Steelhead Haven neighborhood also changed the behavior of the North Fork Stillaguamish River in ways that are still being studied. The Whitehorse Trail skirts and crosses the river and its tributaries in a number of places on the path’s 27-mile route from Arlington to Darrington. At least two spots along the trail have been washed out this year, including a stretch that parallels Highway 530 in the heart of Oso, just west of the community’s fire hall.

The washout happened days before Thanksgiving on a stretch of trail that borders Deer Creek, a tributary of the North Fork Stillaguamish. That segment of trail had to be closed, Teigen said. However, it’s near enough to the road and the shoulder is wide enough that locals who use the trail regularly have been able to get around.

“And we’re certainly not encouraging any nonlocals to be up on that

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at 10 days old, he weighed four-and-a-half pounds and was suffering with severe medical issues.

If he survived, doctors expected him to need round-the-clock care.

“If we would have given up on him, the world would have been deprived this amazing individual,” Julie Gelo said. “Just look at his social ability and his musical talent.”

When he would cry as a baby, Gelo soothed him by playing a pow-wow drum, honoring his birth family’s Northern Cheyenne roots. As Brandan grew, he would turn most anything into an instrument, beating on pots, pans, his car seat — anything that made noise.

When he started band in high school, Brandan had trouble with sensory overload from the loud sounds.

He sometimes would get so overwhelmed that he’d curl up in a fetal position on the floor. He was shy about talking to people, let alone performing in front of an audience.

But he stuck with it.

Band Director Lesley Moffat helped Brandan find ways to work around his problems.

“This kid, through music, has overcome so many obstacles,” she said.

Moffat uses music to help special needs students face challenges in ways other activities cannot. She started by having Brandan play quieter percussion instruments so his mistakes wouldn’t be obvious. He progressed to playing the bass drum, keeping the band’s heartbeat alongside all the other drummers.

With the work, Brandan’s confidence improved, he made friends and found ways to fit in at school. He now plays guitar, banjo and piano. Since he doesn’t read music, he learns by listening.

“It takes me a while,” he said, holding a 1957 Huntington guitar at his home on Saturday. “I like to play old music, like bluegrass and rock-and-roll.”

As he strummed his red-and-black guitar, he wore a matching plaid shirt with denim jeans and cowboy boots. Brandan said his western style was a tribute to his grandfather, who died a few weeks ago in North Dakota.

Gene Lund introduced his grandson to country musicians such as Hank Williams, Johnny Cash

He always looks at the bright side. His spirit has inspired me.

— Graydon Gunthardt friend and former bandmate of Brandan Gelo

and Patsy Cline. They became his favorites.

Now, Brandan is a teaching assistant for the school concert band.

He played with the wind ensemble at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in 2012. As Gelo watched that performance, she thought of her son’s birth mother, who died at 28.

“I hope she can see what a cool kid he really is,” she said.

Brandan’s grit most often comes with a smile and a positive attitude.

“He always looks at the bright side,” said Graydon Gunthardt, a friend and former bandmate. “His spirit has inspired me.”

Gunthardt spent time with Brandan, playing in the Jackson Four, a swing and oldies group they created with two other classmates. Through their friendship, Gunthardt said, he’s learned not to make assumptions about people before getting to know them.

With more special and general education students making friends, Moffat said, she and other educators have noticed changes at school. Students are sitting together at lunch, exchanging high-fives in the hallways and helping each other.

Brandan’s bandmates, for example, signal him when it’s time to play.

“They’re not just being nice because he has special needs,” Moffat said.

“They’ve built genuine friendships.”

Principal Dave Peters credits a decrease in bullying over the past three years to band and other programs that get students to interact.

“Students are treating each other better,” said Peters, who occasionally jams with Brandan on his own banjo. “Special needs kids are not only included but celebrated.”

With more special education students joining band, Alex Carlson-Helo was hired this year to help teach music. As a student at Jackson, she set her sights on teaching special education when she and Brandan became friends in band.

Another friend, Meagan Moffat, wrote her college essay about how playing music with Brandan changed her life. She’s

now majoring in musical theater at Central Washington University.

Brandan calls Moffat and Carlson-Helo his bodyguards. They used to walk him to class to make sure he didn’t get picked on.

“It made it cool for special ed kids to be in general education with us,” Carlson-Helo said.

“Now, Brandan leads my team. And he is capable of doing so much more.”

When Carlson-Helo was crowned Miss Washington Teen USA in 2012, she took Brandan to homecoming. She was his date to the dance again in 2013 but this time Moffat came along.

“He certainly had bragging rights and he was not shy about telling people,” Carlson-Helo said Now, other special education students look up to Brandan. Cathy Moore, of Everett, said her son Anthony, 16, has made strides socially because of the friends he’s made in band. Now he feels he fits in.

Beyond the social benefits, Lisa Grossman, also of Everett, said including students with disabilities in band has helped her son, Scott, improve his hand-eye coordination.

He’s also learning to read music. “I play drums,” Scott, 16, said. “We make some noise.”

At their Christmas concert last week, the special education musicians played boomwhackers by tapping the colorful, tuned-percussion tubes on their thighs to keep the beat. The audience sang along as they played “Jingle Bells.” After the show, students exchanged smiles and high-fives, before taking a bow.

“It’s really cool. I want to be in the band,” said Brandan’s brother, Cody Gelo, 9.

After high school — special needs students may attend until they are 21 — Brandan hopes to work at a music store and continue playing music. No matter what happens with his music or his life, he said, one thing is for certain. He’ll never stop striving to beat expectations.

“You have to keep on going,” Brandan said.

“You just roll on through.”

Health deadline extended for some Associated Press SEATTLE — Authorities are giving people who have been having technical problems signing up for health insurance through the state exchange more time to get insurance that begins Jan. 1.

The special 60-day

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OBITUARIES AND MEMORIALS In Honor of John F. Hinchcliffe

March 13, 1922 - July 3, 2001 It’s thirteen years now that I’ve been waiting for A Christmas with you, is what I wish for.

Just like the other years that have passed by, A wish for Christmas with you has never gone by.

As we gather around the Christmas tree, I still remember you shaking and rattling the gifts, you see.

Even though you are not here to hold Miles, your great grandson, I promise, he will always know you, and the great deeds you have done.

A 3 year old is so many things.

A tiny discoverer of butterfly wings.

He’s always talking and always running...

You can just forget about him walking!

His imagination runs wild, While playing with his trains and cars, His imagination runs wild at night, gazing at the moon and stars.

His hugs and kisses come with a sweet surprise, His love fills your heart and tears in your eyes.

I speak of you often and want him to know the grandpa he can’t meet yet The grandpa who’d love him so.

As we sit around the Christmas tree, emotions will be sad, Gifts for them, gifts for me, but none of them will say DAD. So please DAD, fly for me on Christmas day, So I see the eagle, and know that you’re ok.

Merry Christmas to you.

Your legacy lives on.

I love you, Joanie

Mary Noel Keough On Christmas morning, Mary Noel Keough was born to Dr. and Mrs. George F. Keough in Chicago, Ill. and died September 20, 2014 in Olympia Wash.

She is survived by her sonof-choice, Chhorth Pril and his family; her sisters, Kathleen Bauer and Sheila Tessem; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents and former husband, Joseph Finamore.

Mar y Noel was always coming up with ideas for a business such as star ting the first espresso stand in Philadelphia. Her love for the poor inspired her go to E a s te r n Un i ve r s i t y i n Pa . where she became Executive Associate to Tony Campolo and Assistant Director to Graduate Programs in Urban Economic Development.

Moving back to the northwest, she continued in her passion working for the NW Leadership Foundation and Coalition for Community Development, later in her career for Eagle Wings Disability Ministries. Her creative abilities led her to produce a play based on “Hinds Feet on High Places.”

M a r y N o e l w i l l b e remembered for her love of all people, especially the poor, and her love for Jesus Christ, her Redeemer and Savior.

Today, in our hear ts, we wish her a Happy Bir thday and a Merry Christmas.

Susan Mary Linson S u s a n M a r y L i n s o n wa s born on January 16, 1947 in Seattle, Washington. She joined our Lord on December 21, 2014.

She is sur vived by her husband, Lawrence Linson and three children: Jeanette Linson, Scott Linson, and Teresa Rodrick. Her parents are Gordon (deceased) and Rosemary Jesmer. She was the eldest of ten children, G o rd y J e s m e r, S teve Jesmer, Larry Jesmer, Chris Gross, Betty Jesmer (deceased), Pat Hutchinson, Alan Jesmer, Jeanie Gross, and Maryanne Clements; six grandchildren: Rober t Devaul, James Rodrick, D’Anna Rodrick, Zakar y Savinski, Sidney Linson, and Jared Linson and one great g r a n d d a u g h te r, R ave n Sherman.

H e r F u n e r a l i s o n D e c e m b e r 2 6 , 2 014 a t 11:00 a.m. at St. Michaels Church in Snohomish.

She is deeply loved by all who knew her.

Michelle (McBee) Johnson Michelle Ann (McBee) J o h n s o n p a s s e d aw ay i n Kodiak Alaska, December 15 , 2 014 . S h e wa s b o r n May 1, 1965 to George W. and Dorothy Sue McBee in Wichita Kansas.

Michelle was preceded in death by her father, George W. McBee. She is sur vived by her mother and three siblings; s i s te r s , D e b C h r i s to p h e r, Mindy Jackson and her brother, Ed McBee; as well as many adoring nieces and nephews.

At the age of five, Michelle moved with the rest of her family from Kansas and they settled in Mukilteo Washington. Michelle loved music, writing and poetr y.

After graduating from Mariner High School in 1983 she went on to Washington State University where she graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Design.

Michelle moved to Kodiak, Alaska where she lived and worked for over 25 years eventually becoming an owner of “Alaska Hydraulics.” The company, based in Anchorage and Kodiak is one of the largest suppliers of hydraulic equipment used in the Alaskan fishing industry. She loved Alaska and the people who are drawn to that land.

Michelle was always happiest when those around her were laughing, so please remember her with a smile.

We w i l l a l w ay s m i s s o u r sister, daughter, and friend but we rest easier knowing that she lived her life to the fullest.

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recreational path between Arlington and Darrington.

Officials hope the route will become a boon for businesses in Arlington, Darrington and the communities in between, including Oso. The effort has received some solid backing in the private sector as well. Teigen expects that at least two of the old, unstable bridges along the trail to be repaired and upgraded by the end of the year thanks to a $301,000 private donation.

“Crews are out replacing railings and decking right now with some of our donated funds,” Teigen said.

The trail is an old Burlington Northern Railroad line, and 14 bridges on the route are in need of updates.

Another donor gifted the county with 30 acres adjacent to the trail near Fortson Mill and the parking area there. The county signed off on the donation the day before Thanksgiving. It gave Teigen something extra to be thankful for, he said. The property can be used to improve access to the trail and draw more people to the location, though specific plans have not yet been made.

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There is another washout on the trail near Darrington that crews have been monitoring for a while, he said.

The U.S. Geological Survey has installed extra river gauges along the Stillaguamish to track water levels and help provide an alert for potential flooding.

“Lots of folks are watching it and we’re putting together a plan of action,” Teigen said.

Along with the gauges, rangers visited the trail near the latest washout in the days immediately after Thanksgiving, he said.

The trail has been a busy place for rangers and other workers during the last six months. Crews hired by Workforce Snohomish through federal emergency relief funds spent the summer cleaning up the trail. They cut back brush, cleaned out garbage and widened the walkway, especially near Fortson Mill, a key access point for the trail.

Though segments of the trail, particularly those with bridges, remain closed pending repairs and safety upgrades, the parks department is on its way to creating a continuous

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Jordanian pilot captured U.S. says the plane was not shot down, but Islamic State militants are known to have antiaircraft missiles.

Militants with the captured pilot in a white shirt (center) in Raqqa, Syria, on Wednesday.

plane went down because of fire from the ground, but it is difficult to confirm that, with the little information we have,” he said.

The Islamic State group is known to have Russian-made Igla antiaircraft missiles. The shoulder-fired weapon has long been in the Syrian and Iraqi government arsenals; it was used during the 1991 Gulf War by Iraqi forces to bring down a British Tornado jet, for example. More recently, militants in Chechnya have used them to down Russian helicopters.

The warplane went down near the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto IS capital.

Images showed the pilot — in a white shirt, naked from the waist down and sopping wet — being pulled by gunmen out of what appeared to be a lake. Another picture showed him surrounded by more than a dozen fighters, some of them masked. The images were published by the Raqqa Media Center, a monitoring group that operates in areas under the extremists’ rule with the group’s consent.

The plane’s glass canopy was taken by militants and put on display in the main square of Raqqa, according to the media center.

Jordan identified the pilot

as 1st Lt. Mu’ath Safi al-Kaseasbeh. His cousin Marwan al-Kaseasbeh confirmed that the photos were of Mu’ath.

The United States and several Arab allies have been striking the Islamic State in Syria since Sept. 23, and U.S. and other international warplanes have been waging an air campaign against the extremists in Iraq for even longer. The campaign aims to push back the jihadi organization after it took over much of Iraq and Syria and declared a “caliphate.”

Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are participating in the Syria airstrikes, with logistical support from Qatar. Jordan in particular has come under heavy criticism from militants for its participation.

IS has beheaded dozens of Syrian soldiers it captured around the country. The group has also beheaded three Americans and two Britons. In Iraq, it has shot down at least one Iraqi military helicopter, and the pilots died in the crash.

Moman, the information minister, vowed: “The war on terrorism will continue.” He praised the pilot as an “example of heroism.”

Apparently seeking to blunt criticism of the country’s participation in the air campaign, Jordanian media published

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reports of al-Kaseasbeh’s family expressing support for Jordan’s King Abdullah.

Jordan’s military said that the pilot was taken hostage by IS and that the group and those who support it will be held responsible for his safety.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had confirmation from activists on the ground that the aircraft was shot down, either by a Russian-made antiaircraft missile or by heavy machinegun fire.

Activists say IS is widely known to have Igla missile systems, either captured or bought from rival Syrian rebels, who obtained them from international patrons or bought them on the international market. State arsenals in both Iraq and Syria have been looted, so that could also be a source of Iglas circulating among rebels.

IS is likely to try to target other planes, said military analyst Hisham Jaber, a retired brigadier general in the Lebanese military.

“Inevitably, they will take down more,” Jaber said. He said that the antiaircraft weapons require little training or expertise to employ and that aircraft flown by Arab countries are easier targets since they have less technology to avoid guided missiles.

Officer kills man near Ferguson Associated Press BERKELEY, Mo. — The mayor of the St. Louis suburb of Berkeley urged calm Wednesday after a white police officer killed a black 18-yearold who police said pointed a gun at him, reigniting tensions that have lingered since the death of Michael Brown in neighboring Ferguson.

A crowd of about 300 people gathered at the gas station where Antonio Martin was shot late Tuesday, throwing rocks and bricks in a scene reminiscent of the sometimes-violent protests that followed Brown’s death.

But unlike the shooting of Brown, which was not captured on video, Berkeley Mayor Theodore Hoskins said surveillance footage appeared to show Martin pulling a gun on the unidentified 34-year-old officer who questioned him and another man about a theft at a convenience store. Brown was unarmed.

“You couldn’t even compare this with Ferguson or the Garner case in New York,” Hoskins said, referring to the chokehold death of Eric Garner, another black man killed by a white police officer.

He also noted that unlike in Ferguson, where a mostly white police force serves a mostly black community, more than half of the officers in his city of 9,000 are black, including top command staff.

St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar did not provide more details about the theft Martin was being asked about. He said Martin pulled a loaded 9mm handgun and the officer fired three shots while stumbling backward. One hit

Americans support relations with Cuba WASHINGTON — The American public is solidly behind President Barack Obama’s efforts to normalize relations with Cuba, new polls show. A CNN/ ORC survey found 63 percent favor diplomatic relations with Cuba. Two-thirds want an easing of travel restrictions, while 53 percent regard Cuba as no threat to this country. A CBS News survey found Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, favored restoring diplomatic relations. Obama last week took steps to restore relations. Congress would have to lift the economic embargo, though 55 percent said it should do so. The effort faces strong opposition, notably from Republican leaders.

Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan — Islamic State militants captured a Jordanian pilot after his warplane crashed in Syria while carrying out airstrikes Wednesday, making him the first foreign military member to fall into the extremists’ hands since an international coalition launched its bombing campaign against the group months ago.

Images of the pilot being pulled out of a lake and hustled away by masked jihadis underscored the risks for the U.S. and its Arab and European allies in the air campaign.

The capture — and the potential hostage situation — presented a nightmare scenario for Jordan, which vowed to continue its fight against the group that has overrun large parts of Syria and Iraq and beheaded foreign captives.

The cause of the crash was not immediately known, but the U.S. military insisted the plane was not shot down.

“Evidence clearly indicates that ISIL did not down the aircraft as the terrorist organization is claiming,” Central Command said.

U.S. Army Gen. Lloyd Austin, who is overseeing all coalition military operations in Iraq and Syria, condemned the pilot’s capture, saying: “We will support efforts to ensure his safe recovery and will not tolerate ISIL’s attempts to misrepresent or exploit this unfortunate aircraft crash for their own purposes.”

A coalition official said the pilot was in an F-16 fighter and was able to eject.

Jordanian Information Minister Mohammad Momani earlier said the plane was believed to have been shot down.

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Toni Martin-Green cries out Wednesday as she talks to police at the scene where her son, Antonio Martin, was fatally shot Tuesday in Berkeley, Missouri.

Martin, who didn’t fire his own gun. He died at the scene.

“I don’t know why the guy didn’t get a shot off, whether his gun jammed or he couldn’t get the safety off,” said attorney Brian Millikan, who is representing the officer. He said that the officer was lucky to be alive and certain he had no choice but to use lethal force.

St. Louis County police and the city of Berkeley are investigating the shooting, which Belmar called a tragedy for both Martin’s family and the officer, who has been on the force for six years.

“He will carry the weight of this for the rest of his life, certainly for the rest of his career,” Belmar said of the officer.

“There are no winners here.”

The officer wasn’t wearing his body camera, and his cruiser’s dashboard camera was not activated because the car’s emergency lights were not on, Belmar said.

Police released surveillance video clips from three different angles. The men can be seen leaving the store as a patrol car drives up. The officer gets out and speaks with them.

About 90 seconds later, one appears to raise his arm, though it’s difficult to see what he’s holding because they were several feet from the camera. Belmar said it was a 9mm handgun with one round in the chamber and five in the magazine. Police were searching Wednesday for the other man, who ran away.

Belmar said Martin had a criminal record that included three assault charges, plus charges of armed robbery, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.

His mother, Toni Martin-Green, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Antonio was the oldest of four children.

“He’s like any other kid who had dreams or hopes,” she said.

“We loved being around him.

He’d push a smile out of you.”

His was the third fatal shooting of a young black man by a white police officer in the St. Louis area since Brown was killed by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. Kajieme Powell, 25, was killed Aug. 19 after approaching St. Louis officers with a knife. Vonderrit Myers, 18, was fatally shot on Oct. 8 after allegedly shooting at a St. Louis officer.

Each killing has led to protests, as did a grand jury’s decision last month not to charge Wilson in Brown’s death. A crowd quickly gathered late Tuesday in Berkeley. The demonstration involving about 300 people turned violent.

More than 50 police officers responded to protests Tuesday. Belmar said officers used pepper spray but not tear gas.

Four people were arrested on charges of assaulting officers.

Belmar said three explosive devices, perhaps fireworks, were tossed near gas pumps.

One officer hit by a brick was treated for facial cuts, and another was treated for a leg injury sustained as he retreated from an explosive.

State Sen. Maria ChappelleNadal, a Democrat who has been critical of how police handled the Brown case, said the Martin shooting was far different than Brown’s, noting that Martin pointed a weapon at the officer.

“That officer not only has an obligation to protect the community, but he also has a responsibility to protect himself,” said the senator, who is black. “Because of the video, it is more than apparent that his life was in jeopardy.”

Texas: Bush in hospital Former President George H.W. Bush was admitted to a Houston hospital Tuesday evening after experiencing a shortness of breath, a family spokesman said. Bush, 90, was taken by ambulance to Houston Methodist Hospital as a “precaution,” according to a spokesman. He “will be held for observation, again as a precaution,” he said.

The elder Bush, the nation’s 41st president, had served two terms as Ronald Reagan’s vice president when he was elected in 1988.

Georgia: Glitch with Ebola A laboratory technician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was being monitored Wednesday for possible accidental exposure to the Ebola virus that came during an experiment, officials said. The person working in a secure laboratory in Atlanta may have come into contact with a small amount of a live virus, a CDC spokeswoman said. The experimental material was on a sealed plate, but wasn’t supposed to be moved into the lab in which the technician was working, she said. The worker will be monitored for 21 days.

Hawaii: White Christmas?

Some are dreaming of a White Christmas. A blizzard warning remained in effect Wednesday for the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii. While snow on the mountains is common, a blizzard with significant accumulation is unusual. Up to 8 inches of snow could accumulate above 11,500 feet, the National Weather Service said. “Usually it’s just a dusting or up to an inch or two,” a meteorologist said. “Right now we have a pretty powerful winter storm.”

Pennsylvania: Gift theft Police said a baby sitter stole a 2-yearold’s Christmas present from under the tree and returned it to the store so he could pocket a $30 refund. Sunbury police arrested Sean Ashelman on Monday on theft, forgery and stolen property charges in connection with the heist of the Mickey Mouse table and chair set. The 24-year-old remains jailed in lieu of $25,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Dec. 31.

AROUND THE WORLD Ireland: Rights of a fetus A lawyer representing a 17-week-old fetus living inside the clinically dead body of its mother told a Dublin court Wednesday that the unborn child’s right to life trumps the woman’s right to a dignified death. Conor Dignam, representing the fetus on behalf of the state, made his closing arguments to three High Court judges who must decide whether Ireland’s anti-abortion laws — the most restrictive in Europe — permit the woman’s life support machines to be turned off. Their judgment is expected Friday. Seven doctors, the woman’s father and her partner agreed in testimony Tuesday that artificial support to sustain the woman’s deteriorating body should end because she has been clinically dead for three weeks.

Iraq: Suicide bomb attack A suspected suicide bomber killed 43 pro-government militia fighters Wednesday in an attack near Baghdad, police said. The attacker blew himself up amid a group of Sahwat (Awakening) militia, who were gathering to collect their salaries at an Iraqi Army outpost in Madain south of Baghdad. At least 61 were wounded in one of the deadliest attacks in recent months. There were no claims of responsibility. Previous attacks targeting security forces and pro-government militias in Iraq were claimed by al-Qaida operatives.

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Jobless aid at 7-week low Bloomberg News WASHINGTON — Fewer Americans than forecast filed applications for unemployment benefits last week, a sign the job market is making progress as the year ends.

Jobless claims dropped by 9,000 to 280,000 in the week ended Dec. 20, the fewest since early November, from 289,000 in the prior period, a Labor Department report showed Wednesday

in Washington. The median forecast of 47 economists surveyed

by Bloomberg called for 290,000.

No states estimated data and there was nothing unusual in the report, a spokesman said as the figures were released.

Rising demand is encouraging businesses to hold the line on dismissals and take on more workers. Better job prospects and cheaper fuel costs signal consumer spending, the biggest part of the economy, will provide

another boost to the expansion this quarter after growth from July through September that was the strongest in more than a decade.

“This is hinting at ongoing improvement in the labor market,” said Gennadiy Goldberg, a U.S. strategist at TD Securities USA in New York, who correctly projected the drop in claims. The lack of dismissals “allows hiring to better translate into a decline in the unemployment rate.”

Economists’ estimates in the

Bloomberg survey ranged from claims of 275,000 to 300,000.

The previous week’s figure was unrevised.

The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, declined to 290,250 last week from 298,750.

The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits climbed by 25,000 to 2.4 million in the week ended Dec. 13. The See JOBS, Page A10

Drones are the hot new gift Associated Press

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anta’s sleigh isn’t the only thing flying this holiday season.

Drones — flying devices that often carry cameras and can be navigated remotely by smartphones or controllers — have “taken off” as popular gifts as novices have become just as interested in the devices as serious hobbyists. The demand has grown as the industry and government are working together to address safety concerns.

Best Buy expanded its selection from one last year to eight different models in stores and five more online because of rising demand. BHPhoto.com now offers 140-plus models online that range from $50.99 to $6500.

And Amazon says the Parrot’s $160 MiniDrone Rolling Spider and DJI’s Phantom 2 Vision+ Quadcopter, which costs about $1,000, have been “popular sellers.”

Michael Perry, spokesman for DJI, which makes the popular Phantom 2 Vision+ and new Inspire models, said demand for drones has moved “pretty dramatically out of being a pretty niche field into more of a consumer electronics field.”

Will Leverett, 40, from Austin, Texas, bought himself the DJI Phantom 2, and has been using it to take aerial shots of his ranch in Central Texas. Leverett spent $2,700 on the drone and a camera and image stabilizer that goes with it.

“Being able to see the ranch from the air is something that my late dad always dreamed about,” said Leverett, who also used his drone to take shots at the World Cup in Brazil. “Now this technology is literally at Best Buy.” Leverett said he was planning to buy DJI’s Inspire for his brother as a Christmas present. It’s a

By Matt O’Brien

biz bits

WASHINGTON — It’s not hard to think of things more important than the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Odds are you’re thinking of one right now.

The stock market, after all, isn’t the best barometer of the economy’s health. And the Dow isn’t even the best barometer of the stock market, since it averages share prices in a weird way. But if arbitrary round numbers are your thing, the Dow passed a big one Tuesday, closing above 18,000 for the first time.

And that brings us to the worst op-ed in history. On March 6, 2009, former George W. Bush

‘The Interview’ available on video on demand “The Interview” is now available for rental on a variety of digital platforms including Google Play, YouTube Movies, Microsoft’s Xbox Video and a separate Sony website beginning Wednesday. The movie, released Wednesday morning, will cost $5.99 to stream.

It also will open in about 200 theaters Thursday. The studio announced the news just one day after reversing a previous decision not to show the film at all after hackers threatened moviegoers with violence.

The decision not to release the film was widely criticized, with President Barack Obama as one of Sony’s harshest critics. The unusual release marks one of the first times a studio movie will be shown simultaneously in theaters and video on demand.

Mortgage rates increase slightly

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Pilot Maxime Tran Quan Tien guides his Parrot Bebop drone during a presentation to the press in Paris.

drone that can be controlled by two people — one person being the pilot and the other operating the camera — for $3,500.

“It will blow anybody’s mind as soon as they get behind the controllers,” he said. “Getting up there and seeing a bird’s eye view for the first time is inspiring. You see how beautiful everything is from just 150 feet up.”

On the more casual side of the sector, Victoria Blevins, 37, from Woodbridge, Virginia, is buying a Parrot 2.0 drone copter that retails for $299 for her teenage son. Her son likes aeronautical engineering, electronics and computers so she considers the drone “his first step in learning flight patterns.”

But Blevins did say, though, that safety will be a focus when her son using the device. “He won’t be using it unsupervised.”

Indeed, safety concerns have

grown with the popularity of drones. In Belgrade in October, a drone carrying a banner over a soccer field ignited an onfield brawl. A plane in London’s Heathrow airport had a nearmiss with a drone in December.

And in October an Oregon man pleaded guilty to violating a ban on drones in national parks by flying a one near bison and over Yellowstone’s Midway Geyser Basin.

Drone makers say they have put safety measures in place to prevent accidents. All drones are recommended for use in large open areas, not near crowded spaces.

DJI said its latest drones have an automatically capped height of 400 feet, even though technically it could go up to 1200 feet.

Geosensors also won’t let the drones fly close to any major airports. Parrot, which makes the

$500 BeBop drone, also ensures drones do not go above 400 feet.

All three of the biggest personal drone makers — DJI, Parrot and 3D Robotics — have formed a coalition to lobby the FAA to help develop standards for personal drone use.

Additionally, drone industry officials said they are teaming up with the U.S. government and model aircraft hobbyists to launch a safety campaign. The campaign includes a website — www.knowbeforeyoufly.com — which advises both drone operators of FAA regulations and how to fly their unmanned aircraft safely.

The industry also said it plans to distribute safety pamphlets at industry events and work with drone manufacturers to make sure safety information is enclosed inside the packaging of new drones.

Should Obama get credit for surge in Dow? The Washington Post

BRIEFLY

adviser Michael Boskin offered whatever the opposite of a prophecy is when he said that “Obama’s Radicalism Is Killing the Dow.” Now let’s set the scene. Obama had been in office for less than two months at that point, and in that time, stocks had fallen a lot as markets worried that the big bank bailout known as TARP wouldn’t actually be enough to save the banks. It got so bad that Citigroup briefly became a penny stock.

Boskin, though, didn’t think that this once-in-three-generations financial crisis was to blame for the market meltdown. Instead, he blamed it on Obama for ... talking about raising taxes? “It’s hard not to see the continued sell-off

Anthony’s Seafood Grill announced that more than $6,000 was raised at this year’s annual Santa Breakfast benefit. All of the money from the breakfast was donated to support the Mukilteo Family YMCA. The sold-out Santa Breakfasts took place Dec. 6 and Dec. 13 at Anthony’s Seafood Grill at the Alderwood mall.

on Wall Street and the growing fear on Main Street,” Boskin philosophized, “as a product, at least in part, of the realization that our new president’s policies are designed to radically re-engineer the market-based U.S. economy.”

What followed was the usual conservative jeremiad against higher taxes on the rich, lower taxes on the poor, and deficit spending.

Obama’s trying to turn us into Europe, and that’s why markets are pricing in the possibility of a Great Depression — not the dying economy he inherited.

It was an obvious stretch, but it was extraordinarily ill-timed, too.

Stocks bottomed March 9, three days after the op-ed, as the Federal Reserve’s bond-buying

On Dec. 13, United Way of Snohomish County, Snohomish County Labor Council and volunteers from local unions came together to support the annual Marine Toys for Tots campaign in Everett. In total, 71 union volunteers donated over 300 hours to the drive and over $1,700 in toys for Snohomish County families.

In an effort to help those in need this holiday season, Molina Healthcare of Washington hosted a free public event Dec. 17. The Molina Medical clinic in south Everett distributing free gloves, hats, scarves and books. Molina Healthcare provides managed health care services under the Medicaid and Medicare programs and

and the Treasury’s stress tests restored confidence in the financial system.

Then the stimulus started to kick in, putting enough of a floor under the economy that it began growing again that summer. It’s been a nasty, brutish and long recovery, but unemployment is finally back under 6 percent and the economy is now growing at its fastest pace in over a decade.

Add it all up, and Obama’s radicalism has killed the Dow to the tune of a 171 percent return since Boskin’s op-ed.

O’Brien is a reporter for Wonkblog covering economic affairs. He was previously a senior associate editor at The Atlantic.

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Average U.S. mortgage rates rose slightly this week but the benchmark 30-year low remained very close to the 19-month low hit last week.

Mortgage company Freddie Mac said Wednesday that the nationwide average for a 30-year mortgage edged up to 3.83 percent this week from 3.80 percent last week, which had been the lowest level since May 2013. Other mortgage rates were also up by small amounts but all remained near historically low levels that should be a boon to potential homebuyers. The average for a 15-year mortgage, a popular choice for people who are refinancing, stood at 3.10 percent, compared to 3.09 percent last week.

Oil price plunge worries Caterpillar Caterpillar Inc., already battered by a slump in demand for its mining machinery, faces slowing sales of compressors, pumps and gas turbines as oil companies reduce spending.

The impact will be felt by Caterpillar in early 2015 as drillers cut back and exploration declines, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Doug Oberhelman said Monday. While Caterpillar forecast in October that sales will be flat to slightly up in 2015, that view might now be optimistic given the decline in crude prices in the past two months, said Sameer Rathod, an analyst at Macquarie Group.

Coca-Cola reportedly mulls big job cuts Coca-Cola reportedly plans to cut 1,000 to 2,000 jobs in the coming weeks as part of a $3 billion cost-cutting effort. Analysts said the cuts would be as much as 2,000 as the world’s largest soft drink company tries to rein in costs in the face of challenges to growing sales. Coke has a global work force of more than 130,000. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that the reductions will be significant at the company’s headquarters in Atlanta and global regional offices, but bottling and distribution divisions will be largely unaffected for now.

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THE DAY ON WALL STREET Major U.S. stock indexes ended mostly higher Wednesday, with the Dow adding modestly to its gains a day after closing above 18,000 for the first time. It was the Dow’s sixth straight gain, coming during a half-day trading session ahead of the Christmas holiday.

Investors welcomed Labor Department data showing that applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in seven weeks.

The news came a day after the Commerce Department estimated that the economy grew in the July-September quarter at the fastest pace in 11 years.

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Alicia Stout in her 2007 Ford Edge, which was donated by local businesses.

Car donation benefits mom The Snohomish County mother of three special needs children gets transpotation via Recycle Rides.

Herald Business Journal A south Snohomish County woman with three special needs children was given a 2007 Ford Edge earlier this month through Recycle Rides, a nationwide community service program.

Alicia Stout had been taking six to seven buses daily to commute

to and from work appointments.

She was nominated by the YWCA Seattle/King/Snohomish where she turned when seeking shelter with her children.

She had moved to the Seattle area after escaping from a domestic abuse situation. She spent six months at a shelter and is now living in transitional housing.

All three of her children are in special programs for autism. Isaiaa, 7, has a sensory disorder and has also undergone multiple surgeries for an intestinal disorder.

He requires frequent hospital and medical visits.

Twin daughters, Ahleeya and Amelia, 4, both have varying forms of autism and are in special

treatment. Both will start preschool this year.

Stout recently started working providing in-home care.

Recycled Rides is a community service program of the National Auto Body Council in which insurance companies, rental car companies and auto body repairers team up to refurbish and donate vehicles to individuals nominated by local charitable organizations.

Locally, it is sponosred by GEICO, Kirmac Collision/ Thoroughbred and Enterprise Rent-A-Car. GEICO has donated 25 vehicles through the Recycled Rides program this year.

CHICAGO — Unions across the U.S. are reaching out to immigrants affected by President Barack Obama’s recent executive action, hoping to expand their dwindling ranks by recruiting millions of workers who entered the U.S. illegally.

Labor leaders say the president’s action, which curbs deportation and gives work permits to some 4 million immigrants, will give new protection to workers who have been reluctant to join for fear of retaliation.

“I think we’ll see very positive changes” because of the action, said Tom Balanoff, president of Service Employees International Union Local 1. “One of them, I hope, is that more

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unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.8 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.

Initial jobless claims reflect weekly firings and typically decline before job growth accelerates.

Gross domestic product grew at a 5 percent annual rate in the third quarter, the biggest advance since 2003, revised figures from the Commerce Department showed yesterday.

Household purchases, which account for almost 70 percent of the economy, rose at a 3.2 percent annual pace and contributed 2.2 percentage points to growth.

Demand for labor continues to expand. The economy has added 2.65 million workers to payrolls so far this year, the biggest annual gain since 1999.

workers will come forward and want to organize.”

SEIU, whose more than 2 million members include janitors and maintenance workers, recently announced a website where immigrants can learn about the action. The AFL-CIO said it’s training organizers to recruit eligible workers. And the United Food and Commercial Workers and other unions are planning workshops and partnering with community groups and churches to reach out to immigrants.

The efforts come even as Republicans and other opponents of Obama’s action work to undo it, saying it will hurt American workers, and as some labor experts say they’re skeptical immigrants will feel safe enough to unionize in large numbers.

The jobless rate in November held at 5.8 percent, the lowest since 2008.

Recent reports show the improvement in the job market is broad-based across the nation. Payrolls rose in 37 states in November from Vermont to Hawaii and the unemployment rate fell in 41, according to data on state employment.

Some companies are trimming labor expenses. The New York Times will fire 21 union employees starting Dec. 16, according to the union, exceeding the total job cuts the newspaper publisher had originally said were needed to reduce costs.

New York Times Co. had accepted the buyout applications of 57 union employees and almost 30 non-union workers, the New York Times unit of the Newspaper Guild of New York said in a statement on its website. The union said it didn’t know how many non-union employees may be fired.

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What’s Bedford Falls got that we don’t? Plenty W

hat is it that makes the holiday movie classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” feel so ancient? It’s the relationships, but which ones?

Not George Bailey’s warm and loving family. We have close families today. It’s not the far-off relationships, as with long-lost school friends. We have more of them than ever, thanks to Facebook and other digital communities.

The relationships they had in Bedford Falls that are often missing today are those between the very intimate and the quite distant. Townspeople like Gower the druggist, Ernie the cabdriver, Bert the cop — George knew them all by name, and he knew their stories.

George’s family, owners of a building and loan, was fairly prosperous. But the Baileys remained tightly woven with people of varying incomes, education and ethnicity. Each of them was an individual, not just a useful provider of a good or service.

This is society’s middle ring, so strong in the Main Street America of 70 years ago but much weakened since by several forces. One is the clustering of like-minded people from similar backgrounds in the same neighborhood.

Another is the migration of social life and shopping from in-person to the Internet.

Marc Dunkelman writes of the fading town-based model of society in his book, “The Vanishing Neighbor: The Transformation of American Community.” The middle ring, he says, was “where communities of people with different skills and interests,

FROMA HARROP disparate concerns and values, collaborated with their neighbors in the pursuit of the common good.”

“It’s a Wonderful Life” wallows in sentimentality, but it does not sprinkle sugar on the stresses of middle-ring relationships. A key theme is George’s ability to deal humanely with the town’s flawed human beings. For example, he treats the local floozy, Violet, with unfailing kindness, even lending her money so she doesn’t have to sell her furs.

There’s a harsh scene in which a drunken Gower slaps young George around. George responds with tearful sympathy for the grief he knows the druggist is suffering.

Today the parents might sue the druggist for assaulting their child. And Gower’s reputation would have been shredded beyond repair on social media.

The Facebook generation would probably unfriend these needy or difficult people in two minutes. But in the social matrix of Bedford Falls, these connections are for life.

Sacrifice for others is another theme. George gives up his dreams of adventure to protect his neighbors from the evil banker Mr. Potter. Gratitude for

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his good deeds, however, does not flow freely.

When there’s a run on the bank, angry depositors ignore George’s assurances they’d eventually get their money back. He has to remind a man named Joe that when he was behind on house payments, Bailey Building and Loan let his family keep his home.

Some want to take Mr. Potter’s offer of pennies on the dollar.

George implores them: “We’ve got to stick together. ... We’ve got to have faith in each other.”

In a nightmare sequence, George sees what Bedford Falls would have become without him.

It’s Pottersville now, a hellish place where malice is the default, the vulnerable are humiliated and seedy bars, strip clubs and pool halls expel their neon nastiness onto the streets. (The jazz is good, though.)

As our relationships move online, this dark vision is looking awfully familiar. There’s “flaming,” the spread of false personal attacks. And doxxing, the

malicious disclosure of private information. Hacking into private accounts has become commonplace. Stolen personal photos are posted on anonymous websites.

And adults are using false identities to traumatize children.

This is what happens when middle-ring relationships are replaced by an outer ring crowded with strangers. Is it all Pottersville from here on? Let’s hope not.

Froma Harrop’s email address is fharrop@gmail.com.

COMMENTARY | Traditions and technology

Maybe letters to Santa are better in crayon

By Petula Dvorak The Washington Post

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ■■IMMIGRATION

And the GOP plan would be what?

The Nov. 21 article, “Local response to immigration reform splits predictably,” only highlights what has been a long and heated debated about a problem that has only gotten worse since the 1980s and is so complex that it would appear that the only solution is no solution.

All laws involving immigration originate in Congress, the people we vote for every two years.

So, until Congress can get its act together and seriously consider all aspects of illegal immigration, which is the result of employers hiring illegal workers for their cheap labor. This is an employer problem and until Republicans can figure out some way to reimburse all the employers who get by on cheap labor, there will be no meaningful immigration reform.

Republicans have no answers for reform, so the president had no choice but to try and kickstart the process, and so far the only Republican responses have been to threaten lawsuits and impeachment, two of their favorite things. That is their answer for everything. This only highlights

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their ineptness at coming up with any comprehensive plan to deal with anything rationally and would just have the conversation kicked down the road, and as long as money is involved, they could not care less.

All the rhetoric is for political one-upmanship, and does not address anything pertaining to

immigration reform. Some even question the president’s authority, which has its limits, but unless Congress can come up with something better, what is the problem? Whether one is legal or illegal, anything that addresses the issue of immigration should be looked on favorably, unless you are being deported.

Playing politics with this hotbutton issue does not help but continues to show a callous disregard for true reform of immigration law and a true willingness to do nothing but grandstand.

Robert Lewis Everett

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Turn logo around for new outlook The new logo for Everett should be turned to face the other way: looking from left to right, the arms open to reach, to embrace, to receive, to offer, to give; a much more compassionate symbol. Also, the corners should be rounded a bit.

Florence Day Everett

“I sent my Christmas list to you in Google Docs. Can you help me edit it and then email it to Santa?”

Sigh. The days of scrawled letters to Santa with crayons, smiley faces and Unabomberlike scribbles with serial numbers and price lists and naked greed mellowed by cute, backward s’s are fading away.

The Christmas List has officially gone digital.

“My son asked me to text Santa his list,” one mom told me.

The U.S. Postal Service, long flooded each Christmas with hundreds of thousands of grubby little letters addressed to “Santa. North Pole” is seeing fewer such letters every year.

More popular are the e-mail services with elves frantically clearing the inboxes and sending personalized responses.

But this new Webby netherworld is fraught with peril.

The old-fashioned letters to Santa rarely had real addresses attached. And certainly no credit card numbers.

The Better Business Bureau warned parents this month that many of those e-mail services are actually run by the Grinch.

Santa e-mails are the new Nigerian bank scam: The $19.99 will not get your kid a “nice” list certification and a personal letter from St. Nick. You may instead be scammed, have your identity stolen and fund some unsavory shopping spree by bad elves.

The Better Business Bureau tells parents to check out links, run Web searches on company names and refuse deals that insist that the parents “act now.”

Still, technology has come a long way in helping Santa — and parents — do their jobs better.

I’ve told my friends it’s important to add phone numbers for Santa and the Easter Bunny to their mobile phone directories. When my kids happened upon those entries when they were playing Candy Crush at

a friend’s house last year, the other adults called that move “next-level, psy-ops parenting.”

But isn’t parenting one, big psy-ops game? Yeah.

So, is all this preparing America’s children for a “Hunger Games” life of constant surveillance?

That was the argument from Laura Pinto, an assistant professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology who said the Elf on the Shelf is a “surveillance apparatus” that teaches children to acquiesce “to surveillance during waking hours under the elf’s watchful eye.”

“The Elf on the Shelf ... ultimately attempts to dictate the child’s behavior outside of time used for play,” Pinto wrote in a paper this month.

Basically, the Elf on the Shelf is not so much a mother-daughter team’s cute idea that turned into a sales juggernaut as it is a clever conditioning device from the National Security Agency that is in more than 6 million American homes.

So, do we worry that today’s children will look at government lenses embedded everywhere in a Libertarian’s nightmarish future and think “Peaches the Elf” rather than Big Brother? Nah, I think our kids are smarter than that.

The other day, I watched a social media exchange involving parents who’ve done the Santa-in-your-phone trick. One parent said she dialed Santa in the middle of her kid’s tantrum, but as soon as she whipped out the iPhone to report bad behavior, the child snatched the phone to try to argue his case directly to Santa.

Maybe the Google Docs lists and texts aren’t poignant as much as they are empowering kids to be facile in the digital age.

I have no doubt that come birthday time this year, the fifthgrader will present me with a well-argued and graphically sophisticated SlideShare. Cool.

As long as he doesn’t ask for a Samsung Curve TV.

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Black licorice and spy novels. A trip to the emergency room for 22 stitches. A little girl’s dream coat that cost her dad a lot of overtime. A Chia pet. A picnic. A poem.

Readers share an important gift, a gift that never fades, breaks or gets tossed aside: the gift of words.

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was born and lived in the wild winds of Casper, Wyoming. It was Christmas Eve, 1941, when I was 5 years old. My grandmother’s house was decorated all in blue lights, all reflecting off the new fallen snow. It was magic. We went to church first, and this year we went to a fancy restaurant for dinner. It had live music and a full orchestra. The ballroom had large balls of twinkling lights twirling and sparkling across the dance floor. My father took me out to the dance floor and we danced and danced. At first my feet were on his toes, later I was able to follow him. It was such a special time and I felt so grown up in the new dress my mother had made for me and my new patent leather black shoes. There is a song titled “Dance with My Father” and every time I hear it, I think of that special time with him. I am 78 now and my father is on another journey to the great beyond. I still see it all in my mind’s way back then, and I still love to dance.

— Sherry Bonnett, Camano Island

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y best Christmas was in 1954.

We were a family of nine. My dad asked me what I wanted for Christmas and I said, “Oh, what I want can wait because you and mom can’t afford it.” Dad said, “What is it?” I said, “There’s a coat at Rhodes in Seattle, but it’s $59.” Our rent was only $100 a month then. When I got up on Christmas morning and saw that coat I cried all day. I know my dad worked many overtime hours to get it for me.

Rest in peace, Daddy. Thank you. I love you.

— Shirley Fecteau, Monroe

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f I could choose just one holiday to remember, it would be Christmas of 2012. I have a large family and, like every year, we gathered at my parents’ house in Snohomish. I can smell the turkey cooking in my mom’s oven, I can see the assortment of Christmas cookies on the table, the large grand tree in the living room and the gifts piled high to the ceiling for the nine grandkids in addition to gifts for all the adults. Best of all, I can see clearly my 81-year-old father in the corner with a big smile on his face unwrapping the fifth bag of black licorice and the third spy novel ... his favorites!

The look on his face was one of peace and total contentment from a man who had seen many Christmases and played a loving and crucial role in a household of all women (he and my mother had five girls). I remember this moment and his face clearly

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t’s the thought that counts. That sword cuts both ways. The worst gift I ever received came from a coworker. We were two elite secretaries at a world-renowned company. Besides similar backgrounds, we both shopped at Nordstrom, had our nails done at Gene Juarez, drove nice cars. I thought we were good friends. One Christmas I gave her a $25 set of padded satin coat hangers. She gave me a Chia pet. Shocked, I suddenly realized she didn’t like me as much as I liked her.

Chia pet went into the garbage. Sadly, our working relationship changed to strictly business after that.

— PJ Snyder, Everett

because this was his last Christmas.

That night, he went into the hospital and died on New Year’s Eve from complications from pneumonia. I am forever blessed with thoughts of that Christmas, because none of us knew it would be Dad’s last, and that was a gift unto itself, so we could enjoy the holiday, as one big, loud, happy family ... as always.

— Jennifer (Grossguth) Zill, Stanwood

t was Christmastime in Everett, 1958. Downtown was like the set of a Lifetime Channel Christmas movie with the Bon Marche’s Santa in the window welcoming children, and up the street at J.C. Penney, window displays of snow, Lionel trains winding around decorated trees and their own Santa, too. If you know the words to “Silver Bells” … that was Everett in the waning 1950s.

I was a 7-year-old boy with big hopes from Santa that year. Hula hoops and air rifles were high on kids’ lists, but as a youngster who had mastered a two-wheeled bicycle that summer, I had my heart set on a shiny new Schwinn under the tree Christmas morning. As was always the case, Santa didn’t disappoint. I still remember the smell of new bicycle tires as I raced from my bedroom and into the living room that morning. There sat two beautiful new bikes under the tree: one for me and the other for my older sister. I think we took enough time to throw on some clothes and headed out to the sidewalk in front of our house with our new bikes. She headed up the street first with me not far behind.

The street had a slight incline making it a bit of a job peddling up, but oh-so-sweet on the way back down!

Sister was first to start the downward descent with me right behind her … as it would turn out, I was probably a little too close behind. When she reached the front of the house, she (for some unexplained reason) stopped dead in the middle of the sidewalk. I had to sharply veer to the left and off the sidewalk heading directly toward the back of a milk delivery truck. In those days milk was delivered to homes even on Christmas Day. The last thing I remember was sliding under the rear of the truck with my chin catching the corner of its license plate. Mom called Dr. Mincks away from his family’s Christmas morning to meet us at the ER for 22 stitches in my chin. I remember the numbness in my chin and the feeling of the stitches being made … but no pain. I spent the rest of the day on the sofa with aunts, uncles and cousins coming by to offer their sympathy. To this day when shaving I can still see the slight scar in this nearly 64-yearold chin.

— Peter Scheldt, McEwen, Tennessee See MEMORIES, Page B3

Jolie handles Zamperini’s tale of survival with aplomb

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ouis Zamperini’s story is so incredible it doesn’t need a hyped approach.

And thankfully, “Unbroken” plays it straight and old-fashioned, as befits its determined central character.

Zamperini, who died at age 97 in July, had his experiences chronicled in Laura Hillenbrand’s bestseller of the same title. An Olympic runner (at the Berlin games of 1936), he became a bombardier on a B-24 in the Pacific during the Second World War. A crash landing at sea leads to a survival story that would make a tense movie all by itself, complete with life rafts, enemy strafing, and sharks. But there’s more, as survival results in an even ghastlier part of the tale.

The film is directed by

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ROBERT HORTON Angelina Jolie, who turns in a solid, muscular job of storytelling. Early on, some flashbacks to Louie’s boyhood make for a conventional opening, but once the movie shifts to the Pacific, it becomes a kind of endurance test for its spirited hero.

Zamperini is played by Jack O’Connell, an English-born See UNBROKEN, Page B2

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A strong adaptation of the nonfiction bestseller about Louis Zamperini (Jack O’Connell), the Olympic runner whose harrowing WWII experiences (beginning with a crash landing of his B-24 in the Pacific) were an incredible test of survival. Director Angelina Jolie doesn’t hype the material, trusting that a straightforward approach serves this story well — which it does.

Rating: PG-13, for violence, subject matter Showing: Marysville, Everett Stadium, Alderwood Mall, Cinebarre Mountlake Terrace, Woodinville, Stanwood Cinemas, Thornton Place Stadium 14, Sundance Cinemas Seattle, Pacific Place

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‘Into the Woods’ subversive fun from Disney “Into the Woods” ★★★ The Stephen Sondheim fairy-tale musical becomes a Disney film, and although things have been changed along the way, there’s still a subversive tilt to the adaptation. The movie is unmagical, but thanks to the songs and performances (Meryl Streep is a fine witch, and James Corden and Emily Blunt are charming), the film is intriguing.

Rating: PG, for subject matter Showing: Marysville, Everett Stadium, Alderwood, Cinebarre Mountlake Terrace, Woodinville, Thornton Place Stadium 14, SIFF Cinema Uptown, Pacific Place.

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he crucial masterstroke of “Into the Woods” is that the fairy-tale happy ending comes halfway through the action.

What exactly becomes of Cinderella after she settles in with her Prince? Does Jack miss the adventure of climbing up the beanstalk? Does Little Red Riding Hood ever dream about the Wolf?

Such questions fuel the wickedly amusing 1987 Broadway musical, with songs by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine.

Cue the irony, then, that Sondheim’s sly modern classic has been taken up by Disney, history’s busiest purveyors of the happy ending. Sondheim and Lapine were both involved in the film, and if many things have been cut or altered, there’s still a bit of a subversive message peeking through (and some key characters die along the way).

“Into the Woods” presents a crowded roster, with Meryl Streep earning top billing as the Witch, the blue-haired crank who sets things in motion. Streep’s opening scene is pretty glorious, as the actress stalks around the Baker’s shop, spitting out the backstory and laying down a curse.

The Baker (Brit comedian and future CBS “Late Late Show” host James Corden) and the Baker’s Wife (Emily Blunt) must then gather magical totems in three days’ time, lest they remain infertile. When they head into the woods for that purpose, they run into Jack (Daniel Huttlestone), who’s sucker enough to trade his cow for some magic beans.

Meanwhile, Cinderella (Anna Kendrick) is avoiding her rotten family and charming a Prince (Chris Pine), while Little Red

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(Lilla Crawford) is seduced by the Wolf (Johnny Depp, a cameo) on the way to grandma’s house.

There’s more, including

Rapunzel and the giants. The blend of rustic locations and studio-built woods is eye-filling, especially when the characters

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actor who popped up in “300: Rise of an Empire.”

He’s steadfast in the role, but with just enough spark to set his character apart as someone special.

Jolie was wise to cast lesser-known actors, because we’re not distracted by star turns or offscreen baggage. Also good are Domhnall Gleeson, Finn Wittrock, and Jai Courtney as Louie’s B-24 buddies; you could almost believe they stepped right out of a 1943 movie.

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(Whether intentional or not, the film’s depiction of the torture of prisoners arrives at an interesting moment in U.S. history.)

“Unbroken” is beautifully shot by the great Roger Deakins, who might finally win the cinematography Oscar for this one — after 11 nominations.

With a screenplay credited to the Coen brothers, Richard LaGravenese, and William Nicholson — all

top-shelf writers — this is also a literate film.

It’s being sold as an inspirational movie, and it certainly is, although Jolie does her best to keep the action from becoming syrupy. There might have been a temptation to lighten things up with a girlfriend back on the home front or some other break from Zamperini’s ordeal, but the film sticks to its grim core.

By necessity, the movie adaptation must leave out a lot of the background provided in Hillenbrand’s book.

That leaves the focus on one man’s journey, told without adornment. It’s a journey you won’t soon forget.

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cross the border from the realistic realm to the enchanted forest.

In general, though, director Rob Marshall (who guided “Chicago” to its dubious best picture Oscar) brings his usual clunky touch, hammering home the big moments and underlining subtlety with a broad brush.

The singing tends toward the Broadway-brassy, although Blunt and Corden — working in a more casual style — are completely charming.

Depp’s zoot-suited Wolf may be stunt casting, but at least his creepy strutting avoids any hint of Disneyfication, while buried in the cast is a splendid Tracey Ullmann, who really seems to have stepped straight out of a Grimm fairy tale as Jack’s overbearing mother.

In a few ways, “Into the Woods” actually does fit into the recent Disney run of fairy-tale

revisionism that’s given us “Tangled” and “Frozen.” The latter film, after all, rejects the usual story arc and instead wonders why a girl would want a prince in the first place. (It’s as though the company is atoning for all those happy endings of the past.)

All of which culminates in Sondheim’s marvelous lyrics for “No One Is Alone,” a song that considers revenge scenarios and triumphal endings, and then basically shrugs. “People make mistakes,” the Baker and Cinderella sing, a line that can only be described as making the case for radical empathy. “Witches can be right, giants can be good.”

It might not make for a black-and-white finale, but it’s a liberating moment for anybody who ever got bored by happy endings. If the film itself isn’t as good as Sondheim’s best moments — the movie remains stubbornly unmagical — it’s still an unusual blockbuster to unleash at Christmastime.

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“Christmas at Momma T’s”

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e had Christmas early one year because my husband flew to Dallas to spend the holiday with his sister. After my sister and I put him on a Christmas Eve flight we made plans for Christmas Day. A picnic sounded good.

We convinced Mom and Dad to go, and packed up cocoa, soup and sandwiches and headed to Stevens Pass.

We stopped at Money Creek campground, found a table with no snow and set out our lunch. The spoons were freezing and the food cooled off fast. But we had our Christmas picnic.

One year my mother asked me to meet her in the basement to try on a blouse she was giving my sister Maureen for Christmas. We were about the same size. After Christmas I found out she had done the same with my sister saying the blouse was for me. She had us try on our own presents!

— Pat Overturff, Everett

We rarely call, we never write.

But as we gather this Christmas night, let’s remember the one’s that used to be.

At mother’s house, on Christmas Eve. Uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters and cousins.

Nephews and nieces, grandkids by the dozen.

Food’s on the table, gifts under the tree.

We’re all ready! Where’s Momma-T? She’s still in the kitchen a huffin’ and puffin’.

Once again she’s forgotten the muffins.

They’re a little well done, but that’s OK, “Bring ‘em on in, there’s a blessin’ to say!”

Mashed potatoes and gravy, roast turkey and ham, green beans with onions, marshmallows on yams.

Linda’s strawberry Jello was always a treat, “Come on everybody! Dig in! Let’s eat!”

“Whoo! I’m stuffed.” “Can’t eat one more bite.”

“It hurts to bend over.” “My pants are so tight!”

Dinner’s over for now, we’ll have dessert later.

Let’s all gather ’round, it’s time to tear paper!

“Open only one present, that’s the limit tonight.”

“Oh, c’mon Big Daddy, that’s just not right!

Two would be better, maybe even three, Santa needs more room to get under that tree!”

“Now before y’all leave, or head off to bed, there’s Karo pecan pie and cranberry nut bread.”

Mother made ’em herself, she was sure a good cook, and if you need any proof, just give our waistlines a look.

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hen my granddaughter, Ondia Sheets, was 13, right after Thanksgiving she began a “Feed the Homeless Drive” at her school.

She accepted cash donations and had a donation box for blankets, coats, gloves and hats. It became a real community effort. McDonald’s lent us large servers to use to dispense the coffee, Heartland Interiors of Country Village lent us a van to use to deliver on Christmas day, and Franz outlet store either gave us bread to make sandwiches or let her have bread at a greatly reduced cost.

She was able to collect enough cash to purchase sandwich bags, peanut butter, jelly, fruit and cookies. Then, on Christmas Eve day, a group of 10 volunteers (friends and teachers) would sort the clothes and prepare the lunches. Each year, we were able to make 110 lunches. Then, on Christmas Day, a caravan of the donated van and our station wagon and some volunteers’ personal vehicles would head to Seattle to Occidental Square.

As soon as we arrived, the homeless found us. We were all involved with this for about five years. This always made our Christmas very special and we are so proud of our granddaughter for conceiving the idea and carrying it through.

One year, her 4-year-old sister Sarah had asked Santa for a particular robot toy and had gotten it in her stocking

It’s been a few years now since we’ve all been together.

We’re spread like the wind in a stretch of bad weather.

Linda’s in Florida and I’m near Seattle.

Everyone else, somewhere in the middle.

Geography shouldn’t keep us so dang far apart.

Let’s gather for Christmas once again ... in our hearts.

— John Foules, Stanwood Christmas morning. When we arrived at Occidental Square, she saw a young boy and his mother who were homeless.

Sarah was very concerned the little boy would have no presents and gave him her new toy. Then she sat in the van and cried. A homeless man had seen this whole exchange and, taking out a pocket knife, carved a Styrofoam cup like it was the finest lace and gave it to her. She still treasures that cup. We still all think of those magic Christmas days when we fed the homeless.

— Suzanne Rian, Bothell

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n October, 1975, I was 14 years old and we had just lost my older brother who was 16 years old to cancer. My mom was raising all of us kids by herself. There were five of us and I knew my mom didn’t have much money for Christmas presents. There was only one thing I wanted: a stereo to play 45s and LPs. I always loved music. I dreamed of the

music I could play and sing and dance, like a real singer.

That Christmas was sad with not much joy because of our grief. I noticed the others got a present but not me. I thought there was no money for what I wanted. It cost too much money, I told myself. Finally my mom brought out this big box. I opened it and there it as: my stereo. I cried because I knew how hard it was for my mom to save. I will always be grateful to Mom. I finally found out years later my mom put my stereo on layaway and paid a little every two weeks.

— Julie Montgomery, Everett

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ometime around Christmas, I will again join thousands of citizen scientists across the Americas to count the birds we see and hear during Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count. I bundle up in layers of fleece and down with warm boots, gloves and hat. I meet my fellow birders at the crack of dawn as we head out

to scour the landscape looking for resident birds and, hopefully, a surprise or two. At the end of the day, we gather for a potluck and share the day’s highlights, tired but happy knowing that the Christmas spirit includes concern for wildlife.

— Kathleen Snyder, Everett

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grew up on a farm in eastern Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. I was the only girl with three brothers.

Every year just after Thanksgiving the boys’ big train set was put up and my doll house was then put out. These were taken down and put away after New Year’s Day. In 1937 or 1938 my doll house was not put out as usual.

I could not get an explanation and I was very upset. On Christmas morning I found a brand new, larger doll house (obviously a gift from my grandparents since they were the only ones in the family with money and we were their only grandchildren). I remember still feeling upset that no one had clued me in as to why my old doll house was not put out. Then I learned that it had been given to a little girl about three miles down County Line Road. This family consisted of five children: four boys and the 6-year-old girl. The parents had died and the teenage boys were trying to keep the family together by working the farm.

The house had no electricity so the doll house had been refitted to have its lights run from a battery. This was her only Christmas gift, there would have been none for her without it. I do not know if the community found gifts for the boys or not, no one ever told me that.

— Marie Bond, Everett

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hen I was growing up my family used to go door-to-door caroling throughout my hometown of Eugene, Oregon. There were enough of us that we could manage a rousing four-part harmony and people were so nice! Many would invite us in for more music, hot chocolate or cider, fresh cookies, and sometimes nothing more than good conversation. It’s one of my favorite memories of my childhood.

— Renee Radcliff Sinclair, Lynnwood

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t seems like I’ve lived in Washington for all my life.

My wife reminded me that we moved here 23 years ago.

It was about our third year

of living in Everett that I became acquainted with an energetic young lady who was recruiting volunteers to “staff” a local charity “store.” We were still new to the area, and I thought that this would be a great way to get to know the community. So I signed up my wife and three young daughters to help.

We were given the date and the place for which we would be volunteering. So with smiles on our faces and songs in our heart, we drove to an old, somewhat rundown strip mall which was located across from the back of the Everett Mall.

Upon arrival, we looked at the place where we would be helping and then looked at each other. “Dad! Are you sure that this is the right place?” I looked at the volunteer sheet and, sure enough, this was the right place. A store front that looked as if it had been deserted for several years. We went inside, introduced ourselves to one of the volunteer coordinators, and she immediately put us to work. My girls looked at me with one of those what-didyou-get-us-into looks, but marched ahead with their assigned job for the day.

The store was filled with makeshift tables with gently used and new toys and warm clothes. The merchandise was provided at no charge to folks in need. These items would comprise the gifts that would fill an otherwise empty space under the Christmas tree. In the aisles were several happy and appreciative shoppers, making the rounds to find gifts for their child. As they pushed their shopping carts, I could see that they were finding just what was needed for their special someone. I didn’t see any disappointed faces as they left the store.

The buckets placed to catch the leaks, the musty smell, the peeling Sheetrock and the missing floor tiles just seemed to disappear as we watched the busy shoppers getting that thing that would bring a smile to the heart of their child. A gift that would bring laughter and joy to many happy faces on Christmas morning. That was 20 years ago and that loving organization is Christmas House, which is still delivering the true message of Christmas today. God Bless you Christmas House and God Bless those who selflessly give so a child can have a very Merry Christmas.

— Barry Kinyon, Marysville

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Praise for stepdaughter irks wife Adapted from a recent online discussion.

Dear Carolyn: My daughter and wife (daughter’s stepmom) both work in the same creative field. While Wife’s career has been bumpy as of late, Daughter’s has really excelled. She was recently nominated for a few awards for her work. I know Wife feels insecure about her professional accomplishments.

Whenever I mention something Daughter has done, usually in response to an acquaintance asking about my kids, Wife is visibly upset and touchy for several days after. It’s gotten to the point where I’m afraid to “like” Daughter’s Facebook posts, or publicly display parental pride. How should I balance between supporting my wife and cheering on my daughter? My ex (Daughter’s mother) recently told me that Daughter confessed she felt I wasn’t proud of her.

— In Between I wrote a whole answer and then deleted it. For this: What’s with all the need for praise here, both given and received? Why does your daughter need your attention to prove you’re proud of her, why can’t your wife handle her frustration with herself with at least a minimum of grace and without making it other people’s problem, and why are your daughter’s professional

CAROLYN HAX TELL ME ABOUT IT accomplishments even on the table as a possible answer to a friendly “How are your kids?”-type query?

I could make a bunch of smaller suggestions, but you’d all be better served by spending more time together for the sake of it, and valuing each other and yourselves with much less regard for professional plaudits du jour.

Hi, Carolyn: I have recently started a job with an amazing paycheck, and since then have enjoyed spoiling my boyfriend at holidays and birthdays, something I was never able to do before. However, he doesn’t take care of material items very well. He’ll spend a lot of money on something, and then never clean it, or leave it outside in the rain.

I bought him a $600 GoPro last Christmas and he has lost/found it more times than I can count. I love to see how excited he gets when

SUPER QUIZ Subject: “A CHRISTMAS CAROL” — NO. 3 (e.g., Who was the final spirit to visit Scrooge? Answer: Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come.)

FRESHMAN LEVEL 1. What did the final spirit not do that the previous spirits did do?

2. The spirit showed him the death of which two people?

3. Local business associates will attend the miser’s funeral on this one condition.

GRADUATE LEVEL 4. Which three characters steal Scrooge’s belongings?

5. Name an item that the laundress stole and sold to a “fence”?

6. What was the charwoman’s (housekeeper’s) name?

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he receives something from me that he’s not willing to spend the money on himself, but it’s hard to watch him treat expensive items badly. It’s his gift, so I feel like I can’t tell him how to treat it, so should I even bother getting him nice presents anymore? Is there an alternative?

— Should I bother?

PH.D. LEVEL 7. Name any two items stolen by the charwoman?

8. At whose house does Scrooge spend Christmas Day? 9. What are the final five words of the novel?

ANSWERS: 1. Speak. 2. Tiny Tim and Ebenezer Scrooge. 3.

Lunch must be served. 4. Charwoman (housekeeper), laundress and undertaker. 5. Bedcurtains, blankets, a nightshirt.

6. Mrs. Dilber. 7. Sheets, towels, clothing, silver teaspoons, sugar tongs, boots. 8. Fred’s (his nephew). 9. “God bless us, every one!”

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If he does manage to lose the TV, please send a detailed update, thanks. (c) 2014, Washington Post Writers Group

Actor Dick Miller is 86. Author Anne Roiphe is 79. Actress Hanna Schygulla is 71. Rhythmand-blues singer John Edwards (The Spinners) is 70. Actor Gary Sandy is 69. Singer Jimmy Buffett is 68. Pro and College Football Hall-of-Famer Larry Csonka is 68. Country singer Barbara Mandrell is 66. Actress Sissy Spacek is 65. Former White House adviser Karl Rove is 64. Actress CCH Pounder is 62. Singer Annie Lennox is 60.

Reggae singer-musician Robin Campbell (UB40) is 60. Singer Shane MacGowan (The Pogues, The Popes) is 57. Baseball Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson is 56. The former Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, is 56. Rock musician Noel Hogan (The Cranberries) is 43.

Rhythm-and-blues singer Ryan Shaw is 34.

Thought for today: “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” — Roy L. Smith, American clergyman (1887-1963).

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Re: Should I Bother: My boyfriend loses everything and it drives me crazy, so I came up with a gift category of “Things he won’t take out of the house.” He has not managed to lose the flatscreen TV I purchased for him. I also agree on experiences — those are a huge hit. Just, you know, keep track of the tickets yourself ...

— Anonymous

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Of all the first-world problems, this might be the first-worldiest.

Buy only what you can stand to watch him neglect. Or, spoil him with experiences, since he can’t misplace a trip or leave it out in the rain (as long as you’re holding all the tickets and passports).

Or just spoil your future self by socking spare income away. Consider yourself noodged.

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Indecisive wife is driving hubby away Dear Abby: I have been married for more than 10 years and have two children. My wife has a hard time making decisions, which has resulted in some issues such as hoarding, never having gotten a living room set, not replacing old carpets (which is causing potential health issues), not buying a new car or painting the house.

She is always saying, “I’ll decide tomorrow, next week, etc.,” but it never happens. She refuses to accept that she has a problem and seek help. I’m ready to give up on her, but I’m worried for the children. What should I do and where can she find help? — Can’t Make A Decision Dear Can’t Make A Decision: Give your wife a deadline by which to make a decision about the deferred “projects,” then make the decision for the both of you. Your wife can find help by asking her doctor for a referral to a licensed mental health provider, but it won’t happen until she is willing to admit to herself that she needs it and finally decides to deal with her indecisiveness.

Dear Abby: My mother and I haven’t spoken in five years. She didn’t go to my wedding, nor has she met my children. I want to make up with her and the family, but our argument is not the reason preventing me from reaching out. It’s my stepfather.

He has been my dad since I was 5. When I was a teen, he got caught “peeping” at me inappropriately. When my brother discovered it, they got into an altercation. The whole family knows about it, but my mother took no action other than blaming me and telling me to be more RIP HAYWIRE

DEAR ABBY careful.

Now, with my own daughter, I worry it could happen to her one day.

I miss my family, but am I better off leaving things how they are and remaining strangers? — Estranged In California Dear Estranged: Yes, because you know your stepfather is a peeping Tom — which has been known to escalate — and your mother was willing to tolerate it rather than insist on his getting the help he needed.

Dear Abby: My husband and I are retired and can schedule our lives pretty much as we like. However, one thing we disagree on is the scheduling of meals.

Formerly, we ate at 7 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. Now my husband wants to eat lunch at 10:30 and dinner at 4 o’clock. It’s making me crazy! Pretty soon we’ll be eating breakfast the night before. I married him “for better or worse,” but not for “brunch”! Help, please. — Annoyed In Virginia Dear Annoyed: I think much depends upon why your husband has changed the schedule. Has he told you why? If it’s healthrelated, accommodate him. If you’re not ready to eat when he needs to, have him put some food aside for you to reheat and eat later — or prepare your own meals.

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I asked about the play.

South won the first heart with the queen and led the jack of clubs, faking a finesse. West rose with the ace and led the ace and a third heart. South then had eight tricks, but when diamonds broke 4-2, he took no more.

Could you arbitrate?

South’s bid was fine; his play was poor. At Trick Two he must lead the six of spades.

If West plays low, South shifts to clubs. He wins three clubs, a spade, three diamonds and a heart, plus a second heart or spade.

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NEW ON DVD “The Intruders” (three stars): The eight-part suspense series comes from writer and executive producer Glen Morgan, one of the major forces behind “The X-Files.” That background is obvious in this creepy BBC America TV series based on Michael Marshall Smith’s novel of the same name.

Set against the dark and dreary backdrop of the Pacific Northwest, the series looks at a secret society with one ambition — immortality. They accomplish this by taking over the bodies of the living.

Also new on DVD this week: “The Good Lie”: Reese Witherspoon stars in this story of three “Lost Boys” who move to America.

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Six of the best shows of 2014

Big Problems”: Peg and Cat help pirates fairly share tropical fruit.

“The Trip to Italy”: Follow-up to the 2010 release, “The Trip.”

“1,000 Times Good Night”: Husband and wife clash over her dangerous job. Juliette Binoche stars.

“Pride”: A Londonbased group of gay and lesbian activists come together to help families affected by the UK miners’ strike in 1984.

“Traffickers”: Smuggler goes on a search for his old partners to do one last job.

“Dominion: Season 1”: Series that looks at the world following the war between an army of lower angels and mankind.

“Wings: Sky Force Heroes”: Hilary Duff and Rob Schneider provide voices in this animated tale of high-flying firefighters.

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“Broad City” (Comedy Central). Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer’s glassyeyed aspirational comedy of friendship and survival feels like the future.

“Jane the Virgin” (CW). A delicate comic mix of telenovelistic melodrama and emotional naturalism, animated by fine performances of which Gina Rodriguez’s is only the most discussed.

“Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways” (HBO). Like “Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown,” Dave Grohl’s musical travelogue understands place as the desire to make a place.

“True Detective” (HBO). The nominal mystery was disappointing (another serial killer, meh), but more than

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offset by the mood, the talk and the two-headed lead performance of Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, getting to the bottom of each other.

“Black Jesus” (Adult Swim). Aaron McGruder’s affectionately irreverent Christ-inCompton fable is part Bowery Boys, part Boyz in the Hood, part loaves and fishes — funky, farcical, streetwise, spiritually correct.

“Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (HBO).

Working very much in the tradition of his old boss, Jon Stewart, Oliver makes the astonished rant his extended-play own; clips reliably go viral.

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50 years ago (1964) Once again the Legion Carolliers, decked out in Charles Dickens costumes, were singing Christmas carols around town. The group included John Hedberg, Bob Lund, Earl Bishop, Al Bingaman, Forest Maxon, Don Blankenburg, John Macdonald, Lyle Stanley, Mike Kossak, Randy Smith, Don Callahan, Walt Hobbs and Frank Jamieson.

Mary Westmoreland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Westmoreland Jr., 1311 Rucker Ave., would be a member of the Seattle Pacific College Forensics Team. She was majoring in elementary educationlanguage arts.

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Sounds like someone has been hitting the eggnog a little too hard. 6 p.m., BBC America.

“How the Grinch Stole Christmas”: This animated Christmas classic is so much better than the liveaction atrocity that follows it. 8 p.m., ABC. From Herald news services

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Thursday’s highlights on TV include: The “Call the Midwife Holiday Special” has an older Jenny reflecting on how she missed the Nonnatus community during the first Christmas after she left. Meanwhile, others wonder what 1960 will bring. 8 p.m., PBS. During the annual “Doctor Who” Christmas episode, the Doctor, Clara and Santa Claus go

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Lynnwood was spending its first Christmas together in 14 years. Chhum and Mary Pen were glad to be joined by their son, Chea May, who was separated from them when they fled communist invaders. Son Chhem would be home on leave from the Navy. They also had a daughter, Landy.

For many nothing quite captured the holiday spirit than the Christmas tree.

Some thought it started with the Druids priests in pre-Christian celebrating the solstice. Then later Latin monks incorporated the ritual when they set out to Christianize Britain, France, Germany and the Scandinavian countries.

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

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Today is Thursday, Dec. 25, the 359th day of 2014.

There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today’s highlight: In A.D. 336, the first known commemoration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome.

On this date: In 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned king of England.

In 1818, “Silent Night (Stille Nacht)” was publicly performed for the first time during the Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of

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Fireplaces and stoves Fireplaces and stoves have no equal in coziness and comfort, whether they use natural gas, ethanol, propane, wood, pellets, or electricity, and whether they are built-in, prefabricated, freestanding, traditional or modern.

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In 1868, President Andrew Johnson granted an unconditional pardon to all persons involved in the Southern rebellion that resulted in the Civil War. In 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence.

Radiant heating This type of system does not heat the air but rather the walls, floors, windows and furniture. All of these elements store the heat and then release it into the air, providing exceptional and longlasting comfort. This is an invisible heating system that can be installed in floors, walls or ceilings.

stats, electric baseboard and linear induction heating systems allow you to economize on heating costs without compromising on comfort. During the winter, each room can be heated independently.

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NO. 14-4-07098-2SEA PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON FOR KING COUNTY In Re the Estate of DAN F. LAUGHLIN, Deceased.

The AdministratorPe r s o n a l R e p r e s e n t a t i ve named below has been appointed as AdministratorPersonal Representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be b a r r e d by a ny o t h e r w i s e applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the A d m i n i s t r a t o r - Pe r s o n a l Representative or the A d m i n i s t r a t o r - Pe r s o n a l Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy of the claim and filing the original of the claim with the court in which the probate proceedings were commenced. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the A d m i n i s t r a t o r - Pe r s o n a l Representative ser ved or mailed the notice to the creditor as provided under RCW 11.40.020(1)(c); or (2) Four months after the date of first publication of the notice.

If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the c l a i m i s fo r ev e r b a r r e d , except as otherwise provided in RCW 11.40.051 and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the Decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

Date of first publication: December 18, 2014 Personal Representative: Betty J. Laughlin Attorney for the Personal Representative: Christopher P. Frost Address for Mailing or Service: 11120 N.E. 2nd Street, Suite 220 Bellevue, WA 98004 Court of Probate Proceedings: King County Superior Court 516 Third Avenue #E-609 Seattle, WA 98014 Cause Number: 14-4-07098-2 SEA

EDH 606275 Published: December 18, 25, 2014; January 1, 2015

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NO. 14 4 01837 7 NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF SNOHOMISH In the Matter of the Estate of WILLIAM HENRY LEMPE, Deceased, THE PERSONAL REPRES E N TAT I V E N A M E D B E LOW has been appointed as personal representative of this estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be b a r r e d by a ny o t h e r w i s e applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing a copy of the claim to the personal representative or the personal representative’s attor ney at the address stated below and filing an executed copy of the claim with the cour t. The claim must be presented within the later of: (1) Thirty days after the personal representative served or mailed the notice to t h e c r e d i t o r a s p r ov i d e d under RCW 11.40.020(3); or (2) four months after the date of first publication of the notice. If the claim is not presented within this time frame, the claim is forever barred, except as otherwise provided in section 11 of this act and RCW 11.40.060. This bar is effective as to claims against both the decedent’s probate and nonprobate assets.

DATE OF FIRST PUBLICATION OF NOTICE TO CREDITORS: 12/25/14 SHARON KAY LEMPE Personal Representative Attorney for Personal Representative: Shane A. Richardson Address for Mailing or Service: Shane A. Richardson 116 Avenue A Snohomish, WA 98290 EDH607351 Published: December 25, 2014; January 1, 8, 2015.

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Thank you and have a safe holiday.

1969 Conn bell front tub a . H a r d - s i d e d c a s e. $750. (425)312-5360

Darrington Fire Dist.

24 Surplus Sale 1984 Ford E350 Ambulance, minimum bid $500.

1976 Ford F-900 Fire truck, minimum bid, $3,000.

Miscellaneous items: Husqvarna riding lawn mower with bagger.

2 Husqvarna 51� chainsaws.

1 Partner K1200 Hot saw.

1 STIHL Hot saw Viewing of said items will be Saturday, Dec. 20th & Jan 3rd, 12 - 4pm.

Miscellaneious items sold to the highest bidder via sealed bid.

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No. 14-3-03255-4 Summons by Publication (SMPB) Superior Court of Washington County of Snohomish

DETERMINATION OF NONSIGNIFICANCE Proponent: Snohomish County Department of Planning & Development Services

County Administration Building

3000 Rockefeller Avenue, M/S 604

Everett, WA 98201 Description of Proposal: Proposed ordinance to amend the Snohomish County Code titled: RELATING TO MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS AND AMENDING CHAPTERS 30.23 AND 30.26 OF THE SNOHOMISH COUNTY CODE This is a non-project proposal to amend Chapters 30.23 and 30.26 of the Snohomish County Code that will revise the multi-family residential development regulations. The proposed multi-family residential code amendments include: • Increasing the minimum density in all areas that allow multifamily residential development; • Increasing the maximum density in areas located west of Interstate-5 in the Southwest Urban Growth Area (SWUGA) that allow multi-family residential development; • Reducing the minimum multi-family residential off-street parking requirements and requiring guest parking; and • Modifying multi-family residential setback, lot coverage, building height and lot dimension requirements.

The proposed amendments will: • Implement recently adopted countywide transfer of development rights (TDR) regulations by establishing TDR receiving areas where higher maximum densities will require the use of TDR credits; • Add a minor amount of residential holding capacity, primarily in the SWUGA, which will help reduce development pressure to expand the urban growth area; • Encourage the concentration of higher density residential development along selected transit emphasis corridors to support existing and planned higher frequency public transit service; • Provide affordable housing opportunities by creating a higher density multi-family residential option; and • Provide greater consistency with multi-family residential regulations in neighboring cities along State Route 99, a transit emphasis corridor.

Lead Agency: Snohomish County Depar tment of Planning & Development Services Threshold Determination: The lead agency for this proposal has determined that it does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. An environmental impact statement (EIS) IS NOT required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This decision was made after review by Snohomish County of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with this agency. This information is available for public review upon request.

This DNS is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2). The lead agency will not act on this proposal for 14 days from the publication date below. Comments must be submitted by January 8, 2015, to the responsible official at the address listed below.

Appeals: This DNS, together with the subsequent legislative action by the County Council to amend the County Code, may be appealed to the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board.

THIS DNS MAY BE APPEALED ONLY WHEN SUCH APPEAL IS COMBINED WITH THE APPEAL OF THE UNDERLYING ACTION PURSUANT TO SCC 30.73.100. THE APPEAL MUST BE FILED WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE PUBLISHED NOTICE OF THE NOTICE OF ACTION ISSUED SUBSEQUENT TO THE FINAL DECISION BY THE COUNTY. The Notice of Action describing the final decision by the County to pursue or not pursue the proposed action will be published in the County’s paper of record. Any appeal must be filed with the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board, at PO Box 40953 Olympia WA 98504-0953 within 60 days following publication in the paper, or as otherwise stated in the Notice of Action or provided by law.

Responsible Official: Clay White Position/Title: Director, Department of

Planning & Development Services Address: 3000 Rockefeller Avenue, M/S #604

Everett, WA 98201-4046 For further information, contact Steve Skorney, Planning and Development Services, (425) 388-3311, x2207.

Date Issued: December 22, 2014 Published: December 25, 2014.

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To the Respondent: Juan Rojas Garcia 1. The petitioner has star ted an action in the above cour t requesting: the establishment or modification of a parenting plan or residential schedule.

2. The petition also requests that the court grant the following relief: Approve a parenting plan or residential schedule for the dependent children. Determine support for the dependent children pursuant to the Washington State child support statutes.

3. You must respond to this summons by serving a copy of your written response on the person signing this summons and by filing the original with the clerk of the court. If you do not serve your written response within 60 days after the date of the first publication of this summons (60 days after the 25th day of December, 2014), the court may enter an order of default against you, and the court may, without further notice to you, enter a decree and approve or provide for other relief requested in this summons. In the case of a dissolution, the court will not enter the final decree until at least 90 days after service and filing. If you serve a notice of appearance on the undersigned person, you are entitled to notice before an order of default or a decree may be entered.

4. Your written response to the summons and petition must be o n fo r m W P F P S 1 5 . 0 3 0 0 , R e s p o n s e t o Pe t i t i o n fo r Residential Schedule/Parenting Plan/Child Support.

Information about how to get this form may be obtained by contacting the clerk of the cour t, or by contacting the Administrative Office of the Courts at (360) 705-5328, or from the Internet at the Washington State Courts homepage: http://www.courts.wa.gov/forms 5. If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be served on time.

6. One method of serving a copy of your response on the petitioner is to send it by certified mail with return receipt requested.

7. Other: This summons is issued pursuant to RCW 4.28.100 and Superior Court Civil Rule 4.1 of the state of Washington.

Dated: 12-15-14 Brenda Jimenez Petitioner File Original of Your Response Serve a Copy of Your with the Clerk of the Court at: Response on: Snohomish County Clerk Petitioner MS 605, 3000 Rockefeller Brenda Jimenez Everett, WA 98201 524 Terrace St., Apt. 1 Monroe, WA 98272 EDH607410 Published: December 25, 2014; January 1, 8, 15, 22, 29, 2015.

1VCMJD /PUJDFT No: 14-7-50412-9 Notice and Summons by Publication (Termination) (SMPB) SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON COUNTY OF FRANKLIN JUVENILE COURT Dependency of: MYRA AGUILAR, D.O.B.: 06/30/2008 To: Kristin Turner, Mother A Petition to Terminate Parent Rights was filed on October 14, 2014. A termination hearing will be held on this matter on: January 26, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. at: Benton/Franklin Juvenile Justice Center, 5606 W. Canal Place, Kennewick, WA 99336.

You should be present at this hearing. The hearing will determine if your parental rights to your child are terminated. If you do not appear at the hearing, the court may enter an order in your absence terminating your parental rights.

To request a copy of the Notice, Summons, and Termination of Parent-Child Relationship Petition, call DSHS at (509) 585-3000.

To view information about your rights, including right to a lawyer, go to www.atg.wa.gov/TRM.aspx.

DATED this 10 day of December, 2014

MARIA AGUILAR

DEPUTY CLERK Published: December 18, 25, 2014; January 1, 2015.

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Ho, Ho, Ho – a bowl thriller Western Kentucky outlasts Central Michigan 49-48 in the Bahamas Bowl, a game filled with twists and turns and ending in a wild finish, C4

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Peyton Kelley (left) talks with father and fellow referee Brian Kelley during halftime of the Mount Vernon-Kamiak girls’ basketball they officiated together on Dec. 19th.

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fficiating basketball is a family affair for the Kelleys.

Brian Kelley is a longtime referee who has officiated Division III men’s basketball games, before setting down in Snohomish County to focus on his family.

That family includes Peyton Kelley, a senior at Jackson High School who has taken up the mantle and made a name for himself in the officiating ranks.

A week ago, the pair officiated their first high school varsity game together, when the Kamiak girls basketball team took on Mount Vernon. It was a unique — and fun — game for the Kelleys.

“It was such a cool experience,” Peyton said. “Hopefully it was fun for him, working with his son. There’s a definite connection I would say, when we’re working on the court. There’s a good vibe. It was a really rewarding experience to have.”

“It’s so cool. I try to downplay it so I don’t look like such a crazy parent,” Brian said. “But it was exciting.”

The third member of that night’s officiating crew, Riley Newman, found out before the game that it was Peyton and Brian’s first game together.

“The Kelleys are one of my favorite partners because they keep it so fun and light on the court,” said Newman, who starred as a tennis player at South Whidbey High School and currently attends Seattle University, where he plays for the Redhawks. “(The Kelleys) crack jokes during

Like father, like son Jackson High School senior Peyton Kelley followed his dad, Brian, into officiating, and the father-son referee pair worked their first game together recently

timeouts. It’s always a pleasure and a privilege to work with one of them in a game.”

Newman says Peyton, as a young referee, is tested occasionally by coaches, including last Friday night’s game. After an assistant coach for one of the teams questioned Peyton’s call, he blew his whistle and warned the bench that he had heard enough.

“They were pretty quiet the rest of the game,” Newman said.

Peyton, now 18, played baseball until he was 13-years old. After his friends “passed (him) up” on the diamond, Peyton took on a different role and began to umpire. He was looking for a new challenge, and his father suggested officiating basketball games.

“I think I only played one year of recreational basketball when I was in fourth grade,” Peyton said.

“Our family doesn’t have a basketball background. My brother still plays high school baseball.

That’s how I got into refereeing — umpiring baseball, because that’s the sport I knew best. I really knew nothing about basketball.”

Peyton didn’t have to look far for inspiration. He watched his father officiate basketball games and figured, “why not?”

“I thought that seemed cool and kind of tried it out,” Peyton said. “I was 14. Not old enough to do high school basketball right away. I did (recreational) ball and AAU games. That’s what got me on track. Once (he tried it), I kind of wanted to take it more seriously.”

Peyton honed his skills, with his father’s help, in recreational and AAU leagues. He joined the Snohomish County Basketball Officials Association at the age of 14 and See REFS, Page C2

It’s not just his stats that make Seahawks QB Russell Wilson spectacular R

ENTON — When the Seattle Seahawks played in St. Louis earlier this season, Rams coach Jeff Fisher made an absurdly bold call late in the game, calling for a fake punt from inside their own 20 while clinging to a two-point lead.

Fail to convert on that fourthJOHN BOYLE and-three from their own

18-yard line, and the Rams are handing the ball to the Seahawks in range of the game-winning field goal. But Fisher figured the risk was worth it for one reason.

“I don’t think we stopped them any in the second half,” Fisher said on a conference call with Seattle-area media.

Though it came in a loss, that game

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showed how Russell Wilson can be so dangerous that he forces opposing coaches to make extremely risky decisions.

Wilson passed for 313 yards and two touchdowns that day while rushing for 106 yards and another score, making him the first quarterback in NFL history to have a 300/100 game,

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and the Seahawks nearly overcame an 18-point deficit by scoring three second-half touchdowns on drives of 82, 91 and 80 yards, leading the Rams to decide a fake punt was safer than taking their chances with Wilson one more time.

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CALENDAR THU 25

DECEMBER

OUTDOOR OUTLOOK

FRI 26

Next game: St. Louis 1:25 p.m., Sun., Dec. 28

Clam diggers dig in New Year

Next game: Vancouver 7:05 p.m., Sat., Dec. 27

Next game: vs. Oklahoma St. 7:15 p.m., Fri., Jan. 2

Next game: Stony Brook 5 p.m., Sun., Dec. 28 UW MEN

Next game: UC Davis 7 p.m., Tue., Dec. 30

Next game: Texas A&M 6 p.m., Mon., Dec. 29 UW WOMEN

Next game: at Oregon 7 p.m., Mon., Dec. 29

Next game: UC Davis 3 p.m., Sun., Dec. 28

Next game: at BYU 3 p.m., Sat., Dec. 27 Home

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BASKETBALL ESPN Wash. at N.Y. Knicks ABC,4 Okla. City at San Antonio ABC,4 Cleveland at Miami ESPN2 Diamond Head Classic TNT L.A. Lakers at Chicago ESPN2 Diamond Head Classic TNT Golden St. at L.A. Clippers SOCCER 4:45 a.m. NBCS Chelsea vs. West Ham 9 a.m.

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ESPN Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech 1:30 p.m. ESPN N. Carolina vs. Rutgers 5 p.m.

ESPN N.C. St. vs. Central Florida GOLF 6 a.m.

GOLF Ryder Cup 4 p.m.

GOLF Deutsche Bank Champ.

SOCCER 7 a.m.

NBCS English Premier League 9:30 a.m. NBCS Arsenal vs Queens Park 9 p.m.

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ashington razor clam diggers tend to be fair-weather folks on the whole, preferring spring and fall digs and morning hours to winter digs in the dark. There’s at least one major exception to that, according to state Fish and Wildlife Department razor clam honcho Dan Ayers in Montesano, and that’s New Year’s Eve. Ayers says bringing in the new year on the water, with friends and relatives around a beach fire and a limit of clams waiting to be dug has become a happening of some importance on the coast, from Long Beach to Moclips.

The New Year’s Eve low tide this year is not a great one — a plus 0.6 feet at 3:05 p.m. — but that won’t keep the crowd off the beaches and, if the weather and surf conditions cooperate, it won’t keep a bunch of clams from being dug.

“Assuming the surf’s down, there shouldn’t be any problem finding clams,” Ayres said.

“Populations are very good and they seem to be a little higher on the beaches than usual, this year. Also, daylight digs like this one typically draw our largest winter crowds.”

All beaches except Kalaloch will be open for New Year’s Eve, and State Health Department approval for the dig should be on the WDFW website by today or Friday, Ayers said.

The other tides in this digging series are as follows: Jan. 1, 4:01 p.m., 0.2 feet, on all beaches except Kalaloch; Jan. 2, 4:49 p.m., minus 0.2 feet, all beaches except Kalaloch; Jan. 3, 5:32 p.m., minus 0.5 feet, on all beaches except Kalaloch; Jan. 4, 6:12 p.m., minus 0.5 feet, Long Beach, Twin Harbors and Mocrocks; Jan. 5., 6:48 p.m., minus 0.5 feet, Long Beach and Twin Harbors; Jan. 6, 7:23 p.m., minus 0.3 feet, Long Beach and Twin Harbors; and Jan. 7, 7:57 p.m., Long Beach and Twin Harbors.

The WDFW website, www. wdfw.wa.gov/fishing/shellfish has a lot of good, useable information

PICK OF THE WEEK | Ringold steelhead

Outdoor calendar

Yeah, it’s winter. And yeah, the middle Columbia River is a fair drive, but in this day of seemingly always-declining steelhead populations, it pays to go to where the fish are. The state Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Ringold Springs rearing and hatchery facility on the east bank of the Hanford Reach — about 12 miles upriver from the Tri-Cities — has developed a nice little run of steelhead that offers pretty good fishing now through early February. And, the Columbia has the advantage of being in fishable condition most of the winter season.

According to state biologist Paul Hoffarth in Pasco, about 85 percent of the steelhead caught at Ringold are keepable hatchery fish. Both boat and bank anglers score, but boat fishermen usually have a small

n The Evergreen Fly Fishing Club is offering a series of Fly Tying Classes in January at the Rosehill Community Center in Mukilteo. The classes meet at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesdays, starting Jan. 7 and continuing through March.

The classes are for beginning to intermediate tiers and will feature flies that have been effective for club members.

Class members need to supply their own vises and tying tools. The materials needed to tie each fly will be supplied.

The cost is $60. To sign up, call the community center at 425-263-8180 and ask for class 4060. n The North Snohomish County Chapter of the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) meets at 7 p.m. on Jan. 13 at Bayside Marine in Everett. The featured speaker will be author, artist, historian, naturalist and sportsman Bob Heirman. The meeting is open to the public. For more information, call Ralph at 360-653-3894.

Items for the Outdoor calendar can be submitted by e-mail (sports@heraldnet. com), by fax (425-3393435) or by mail (P.O. Box 930, Everett, Wash.). The deadline is noon Monday.

on finding razor clams, digging ‘em, cleaning ‘em, and even cooking ‘em. Recipes on the site include: Dan’s Low-Fat Razor Clam Chowder; Mark’s Pan Fried Panko Clams; Rich’s Broiled/ Baked Razor Clams; Fried Clams; Clam Chowder; Razor Clam Fritters; Spaghetti and Clam Sauce; “Smoked” Razor Clams; Fried Razor Clams and Fritters; Best Darn Razor Clam Dip Ever; Razor Clams With Lemongrass; and Razor Clams With Ginger, Black Beans and Asparagus.

Winter blackmouth The San Juan Islands, as is often the case, offer the best winter blackmouth fishing in western Washington. And the best of the best, according to Kevin John at Holiday Sports in Burlington, is what is called “West Beach,” the northwest side of Orcas from Point Doughty southwest for three miles or so along President Channel.

State creel checks on Friday counted 9 anglers with 4 chinook; on Sunday at the Bellingham ramp, 7 anglers with 7 chinook; and Sunday at Cornet Bay on the north end of Whidbey Island, 2 anglers with 2 chinook.

John would fish either plug-cut herring or a green or white glow 2-3-inch spoon, close to the deck, starting in about 80 feet of water and working deeper. The bottom here is pretty decent, John said, except for a couple of fairly grabby spots.

Quite a few of these blackmouth have been running 10 pounds or better — larger than the fish being landed on the “inside” of the islands.

Roche Harbor sellout All 100 team tickets have been sold for the Roche Harbor Salmon Classic, scheduled for Feb. 5-7, according to coordinator Debbie Sandwith. A waiting list is available by contacting

edge, Hoffarth said. Success rates run from one steelhead for every six or seven hours of fishing time, to about one for every 9 or 10. At times, the fishery can be very good on “summer-run” steelhead holding in the Reach for spawning time next spring.

Another advantage is that hatchery personnel are transferring all the fish taken at the trap back down to Pasco to repeat their run to the facility. During one period in November, 104 of the 439 fish checked were “recycled” steelhead.

Back-trolling with diving plugs is a popular boat fishing technique at Ringold, as is side-drifting with a red, pink or clown Corky, and eggs or shrimp. Bobber/jig rigs also are fairly popular with both boat and bank anglers..

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Sandwith at 360-378-5562, or market@rocheharbor.com.

Steelhead Most westside rivers have been high and dirty for quite a while, but the Peninsula streams were fishable Friday and Saturday before bowing to heavy rain on Saturday night and Sunday. Checks on the Bogachiel showed 49 bank and 2 boat anglers with 1 wild steelhead released, and 14 hatchery fish. On the Calawah, it was 33 bank fishermen with 1 wild steelhead released and 5 hatchery fish, while 4 bank and 10 boat anglers on the Sol Duc reported 1 wild fish released. No fish were reported on the Hoh. The Cowlitz has been running above 14,000 cubic feet per second, but with seven feet reported visibility over the weekend. Fishermen were doing fairly well on a 50-50 mix of late-run coho and winter steelhead — at the barrier dam and the trout hatchery, respectively.

Cowlitz smelt A sampling net deployed on the Cowlitz Monday-Tuesday last week collected 72 smelt, and personnel there reported multiple seals working the area. There are currently no recreational or commercial seasons on the river, but strong runs the last two or three years, plus other factors, have resulted in discussions between Washington and Oregon fishery managers and the National Marine Fisheries Service about reestablishing eulachon seasons to gather biological data.

Short commercial and recreational seasons were allowed last year, and recreationists in the Cowlitz dip-net fishery took some 198,000 pounds of smelt while fishing 6 hours on Saturdays between Feb 8 and March 1. The fishery was popular, according to WDFW biologist Joe Hymer in Vancouver, and quick limits were taken on about half the open days.

The total spawning biomass of eulachon in the Columbia this year was estimated at 16,400,000 pounds.

The forecast for 2015, Hymer said, is for a run similar to the average over the past two or three years, but maybe not as good as this year’s. No seasons have been set for 2015.

Crabbing Ends Recreational winter crabbing will close at 5 p.m. on Dec. 31, and everyone with a winter license will be required to report their winterseason catch by Feb. 1. Failure to submit a winter catch report, even if no crab were harvested, will result in a $10 fine being imposed when they purchase their 2015 crab endorsement.

Crabbers can send their catch record card by mail to WDFW CRC Unit, 600 Capitol Way N., Olympia WA 98501. The information can also be submitted online, Jan. 1-Feb 1, at https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov/wdfw/ puget_sound_crab_catch.html.

FRIDAY

BOYS BASKETBALL Nonconference—Cedarcrest, Emerald Ridge, Kent-Meridian at Kennedy Catholic Tournament, 2:30 p.m.; Archbishop Murphy, Cedar Park Christian (Bothell), Kentlake, Riverside Christian, West Valley (Yakima), Zillah at SunDome Shootout, 7:30 p.m. at Yakima SunDome.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Nonconference—Edmonds-Woodway, Garfield, Lakewood, Lynden, Marysville Getchell, Monroe, Renton, Redmond, Stanwood at Mountlake Terrace Tournament; Granite Falls, Sultan, Tyee at Meridian Tournament; Cedarcrest, Franklin Pierce, Puyallup at Napavine Tournament.

SATURDAY

BOYS BASKETBALL Nonconference—Cedarcrest, Emerald Ridge at Kennedy Catholic Tournament; Cedar Park Christian (Bothell), Riverside Christian, Archbishop Murphy, Lakeside, Zillah at SunDome Shootout, at Yakima SunDome; Kamiak at Surf & Slam Holiday Tournament, San Diego, 10:30 a.m.; Glacier Peak vs. Newport at Bothell H.S., 3:30 p.m.; Jackson vs. Juanita at Bothell H.S., 5 p.m.; Shorecrest vs. Snohomish at Bothell H.S., 6:30 p.m.; Lambrick Park at Granite Falls, 7 p.m.; Oak Harbor at Mariner, 7:15 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Nonconference—Edmonds-Woodway, Garfield, Lakewood, Lynden, Marysville Getchell, Monroe, Redmond, Renton, Stanwood at Mountlake Terrace Tournament; Granite Falls, Sultan, Tyee at Meridian Tournament; Jackson at South Kitsap, 4 p.m.; Cedarcrest, Franklin Pierce, Puyallup at Napavine Tournament; Cascade at Rebel Challenge, Juanita H.S., 5 p.m.; Lynnwood at Nike Interstate Shootout, Lake Oswego, Ore. WRESTLING Aberdeen, Central Kitsap, Columbia River, Foss, Gig Harbor, Kingston, North Beach, North Kitsap, Olympia, Olympic, Sequim, Stadium, Sultan, Steilacoom, Tumwater, Woodland at North Mason Tournament; Everett at The Rock Invite at Vashon Island.

James set for homecoming vs. Heat Refs

By Tim Reynolds and Tom Withers Associated Press

MIAMI — LeBron James doesn’t have any apprehension for this homecoming.

There’s nothing to fear, no real worries about his safety, unlike what awaited him the last time he had one of these return games. Then again, this might not even classify as a homecoming — because, it turns out, Miami was never truly his home, just a place he called home for four years while playing with the Heat.

He came. He won. He left.

On Thursday, James returns to face the Heat, the team that turned him from a superstar to a two-time NBA champion superstar. And as he and the Cleveland Cavaliers prepare for what will certainly be an emotional Christmas visit, James expects to be flooded with positive vibes.

“To say I haven’t thought about going back, I would be lying,” James said. “It’s going to be great to be back in that building around those unbelievable fans and the memories will definitely come back, being a part of the organization for four years.”

For their part, the Heat insist that they’re looking forward to the reunion.

It goes without saying that some in the organization were angry when James left this past summer, in large

part because of how long it took him to tell Miami that he would not be returning. But the building has hardly been scrubbed of reminders: Heat coach Erik Spoelstra still has photos of James in his office, and huge prints of some of his most memorable moments still adorn the walls of “Championship Alley” — the hallway leading from the Miami locker room.

James remains in contact with some Heat players, and his close friendship with Dwyane Wade continues.

“He made the right decision. He went home,” Wade said. “You can’t say nothing about that decision when someone decides to go home.”

James has spent the past few days downplaying his return to South Florida, but the four-time MVP has found himself reminiscing about what he accomplished alongside Wade, Udonis Haslem, Chris Bosh, Mario Chalmers and those former Heat teammates who remain in Miami.

They became a family, and for James, family is everything.

“I’m one person who understands being home, being able to stay home and making sacrifices to be home,” said Haslem, a Miami native who has spent his entire NBA career there despite the chance to make more elsewhere. “I’ve done it my whole career and I can’t fault him for that.

“We had a great four years together, we had a lot of success together and we’ll continue to be friends.”

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was the 2012-13 SCBBO Rookie of the Year. Brian, 50, believes his son is the youngest certified 4A basketball official in the state.

“His first year he almost quit,” Brian said. “He would get yelled at by every select coach out there. Just thrown to the wolves. He came to a few more games and saw what it was and what we talked about pregame and postgame. That’s how it began. To watch that aspect, I am really proud of him. To get to work and see him grow like that.”

Peyton acknowledges there are some drawbacks to being a young (and young-looking) official. He said while the coaches and players are usually pretty respectful, the student sections, on the other hand, tend to voice their opinions.

“It’s usually more student section and the parent-fan section that are questioning me,” Peyton said. “... I get called ‘rookie’ a lot. It’s just part of the game.”

Several local coaches have seen Peyton work and praised the young referee, including Stanwood head

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“I thought he did a great job,” Ward said. “He was composed. A lot of it is knowing the game and he knew the game. If there was a question, he was very clear. I think we just want fair officials that know the game.

Those are the two most important things. He’s both of those.”

Peyton, who referees three to four games a week on average, has high hopes for his officiating career. At a referee camp last summer he talked with a scout for the National Basketball Association. According to Peyton, he is one of a select few that the NBA has its eye on for the future.

First, Peyton plans to go to college and continue officiating high school games.

Then, he’ll see where his officiating path takes him.

“The career path that I’m looking to go towards, as far as my aspirations, is to hopefully go to the Division-I level, if not the NBA,” Peyton said. “... It’s harder to become a professional referee than to become a professional athlete just because there’s so many fewer slots than there are for athletes. I think 64 spots in the NBA for officials and those guys could be there for 20 years.”

His father would love nothing more.

“It’s a great learning job.

I’m really proud,” Brian Kelley said. “In any of the officiating things. It’s a great learning factor learning how to deal with situational issues with parents and children.

And he’s able to pay his own car insurance.”

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL | Roundup

WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Portland 23 7 .767 — 13 16 .448 9½ Oklahoma City 12 17 .414 10½ Denver Utah 9 20 .310 13½ Minnesota 5 22 .185 16½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 23 4 .852 — L.A. Clippers 19 10 .655 5 16 14 .533 8½ Phoenix Sacramento 12 16 .429 11½ L.A. Lakers 9 19 .321 14½ Southwest Division

W L Pct GB Memphis 21 7 .750 — Houston 20 7 .741 ½ 20 10 .667 2 Dallas 18 11 .621 3½ San Antonio New Orleans 14 14 .500 7 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 22 7 .759 — Brooklyn 12 15 .444 9 10 16 .385 10½ Boston New York 5 25 .167 17½ 4 23 .148 17 Philadelphia Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 21 7 .750 — Washington 19 8 .704 1½ Miami 13 16 .448 8½ Orlando 11 20 .355 11½ Charlotte 10 19 .345 11½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Chicago 19 9 .679 — Cleveland 17 10 .630 1½ Milwaukee 14 15 .483 5½ Indiana 10 19 .345 9½ Detroit 5 23 .179 14 Today’s games Washington at New York, 9 a.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 11:30 a.m.

Cleveland at Miami, 2 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

FOOTBALL NFL NFC West W L T Pct PF PA 11 4 0 .733 374 248 11 4 0 .733 293 279 7 8 0 .467 286 323 6 9 0 .400 318 334 East

W L T Pct PF PA y-Dallas 11 4 0 .733 423 335 Philadelphia 9 6 0 .600 440 374 6 9 0 .400 354 366 N.Y. Giants 4 11 0 .267 284 394 Washington South

W L T Pct PF PA 6 8 1 .433 305 371 Carolina 6 9 0 .400 378 383 Atlanta New Orleans 6 9 0 .400 378 404 2 13 0 .133 257 387 Tampa Bay North

W L T Pct PF PA 11 4 0 .733 301 252 x-Detroit 11 4 0 .733 456 328 x-Green Bay 6 9 0 .400 312 334 Minnesota 5 10 0 .333 310 429 Chicago AFC West

W L T Pct PF PA 11 4 0 .733 435 340 y-Denver 9 6 0 .600 341 329 San Diego 8 7 0 .533 334 274 Kansas City 3 12 0 .200 239 405 Oakland East

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 12 3 0 .800 459 296 8 7 0 .533 364 336 Miami 8 7 0 .533 326 280 Buffalo 3 12 0 .200 246 377 N.Y. Jets South

W L T Pct PF PA y-Indianapolis 10 5 0 .667 431 359 8 7 0 .533 349 290 Houston 3 12 0 .200 232 389 Jacksonville 2 13 0 .133 244 411 Tennessee North

W L T Pct PF PA x-Cincinnati 10 4 1 .700 348 317 10 5 0 .667 409 351 x-Pittsburgh 9 6 0 .600 389 292 Baltimore 7 8 0 .467 289 317 Cleveland x-clinched playoff spot. y-clinched division.

Sunday’s games Indianapolis at Tennessee, 10 a.m.

Detroit at Green Bay, 10 a.m.

Jacksonville at Houston, 10 a.m.

San Diego at Kansas City, 10 a.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 10 a.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at Baltimore, 10 a.m.

Dallas at Washington, 10 a.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 10 a.m.

Buffalo at New England, 10 a.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 10 a.m.

New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.

Arizona at San Francisco, 1:25 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 1:25 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 1:25 p.m.

Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 5:30 p.m. w Slater, New England.

x-Seattle x-Arizona San Francisco St. Louis

HOCKEY NHL WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 36 23 8 5 51 104 98 San Jose 35 19 11 5 43 99 90 Vancouver 33 20 11 2 42 99 91 Los Angeles 35 17 11 7 41 97 88 36 18 15 3 39 104 98 Calgary Arizona 34 12 18 4 28 80 112 Edmonton 35 7 21 7 21 75 121 Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA 35 23 10 2 48 107 72 Chicago Nashville 33 22 9 2 46 95 70 St. Louis 34 21 10 3 45 100 86 Winnipeg 35 18 10 7 43 88 81 Minnesota 32 16 13 3 35 93 89 34 13 13 8 34 90 101 Colorado Dallas 33 14 14 5 33 95 113 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA 35 22 11 2 46 95 84 Montreal 36 21 11 4 46 117 96 Tampa Bay Detroit 35 18 8 9 45 100 87 Toronto 35 20 12 3 43 118 102 Boston 35 18 14 3 39 91 91 Florida 32 15 9 8 38 73 82 Ottawa 34 14 14 6 34 90 94 Buffalo 35 13 19 3 29 69 115 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 34 22 7 5 49 108 80 N.Y. Islanders 34 23 11 0 46 105 94 N.Y. Rangers 32 18 10 4 40 97 83 Washington 34 17 11 6 40 99 90 34 14 14 6 34 97 101 Philadelphia Columbus 33 14 16 3 31 80 107 New Jersey 36 12 17 7 31 78 104 Carolina 34 10 20 4 24 70 93 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Today’s games No games scheduled

Western Hockey League WESTERN CONFERENCE U.S. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Everett 33 20 9 3 1 112 94 44 Portland 36 19 14 0 3 122 124 41 Spokane 33 18 12 3 0 93 91 39 Tri-City 33 17 15 0 1 93 89 35 Seattle 33 14 15 2 2 86 92 32 B.C. DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 36 28 5 3 0 157 86 59 Victoria 37 17 17 2 1 121 131 37 Prince George 35 17 18 0 0 107 141 34 Vancouver 34 16 18 0 0 105 110 32 Kamloops 38 13 20 3 2 114 143 31 EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Brandon 35 24 7 3 1 160 116 52 33 20 11 2 0 124 98 42 Regina Swift Current 35 17 14 0 4 110 112 38 Prince Albert 35 16 18 1 0 105 114 33 Moose Jaw 35 15 17 2 1 105 124 33 Saskatoon 35 7 25 2 1 91 161 17 CENTRAL DIVISION

GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Medicine Hat 34 24 8 1 1 133 86 50 Calgary 34 19 12 1 2 134 101 41 Red Deer 35 18 13 3 1 124 117 40 Edmonton 35 16 14 3 2 106 102 37 Kootenay 35 18 17 0 0 109 129 36 Lethbridge 33 8 20 3 2 83 133 21 No games scheduled until Saturday

LINE NFL Sunday FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at Green Bay 7½ Detroit at Houston 10 Jacksonville at Pittsburgh 3 Cincinnati Indianapolis 7 at Tennessee at Baltimore 9 Cleveland at New England 3½ Buffalo at Miami 5½ N.Y. Jets at Atlanta 3½ Carolina at Minnesota 6½ Chicago at Kansas City 2½ San Diego at N.Y. Giants 2½ Philadelphia Dallas 6½ at Washington New Orleans 4 at Tampa Bay at Seattle 13 St. Louis at San Francisco 5½ Arizona at Denver 14½ Oakland

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Western Kentucky running back Anthony Wales (20) scores as quarterback Brandon Doughty (rear left) signals touchdown during the Bahamas Bowl in Nassau, Bahamas, on Wednesday. Western Kentucky defeated Central Michigan 49-48.

Wild finish in the Bahamas

Western Kentucky hangs on to beat Central Michigan 49-48 Associated Press NASSAU, Bahamas — A miracle comeback for Central Michigan on a record-setting day by quarterback Cooper Rush fell just short at the inaugural Bahamas Bowl.

Down by 35 points with 12 minutes remaining, Central Michigan scored the final five touchdowns of the game, including a threelateral, 75-yard dazzler on the final play. But Western Kentucky escaped with a 49-48 victory Wednesday when Rush’s 2-point conversion pass fell incomplete.

Rush was officially credited with seven touchdown passes, a bowl record, in the first college football postseason game played outside the U.S. or Canada since Jan. 1, 1937. The last of his TD

passes came on a wild sequence in which six Chippewas touched the ball.

“It was a roller-coaster ride,” said Western Kentucky quarterback Brandon Doughty, who threw for five touchdowns and increased his nation-leading total to 49 on the season. “We were just lucky and blessed that we got the win.”

Very lucky.

The Chippewas got the ball on their own 25 with a second remaining after a punt, trailing 49-42. Rush threw deep to Jesse Kroll, who caught the ball between three Western Kentucky defenders at the Hilltoppers’ 29. Kroll advanced the ball slightly before lateraling to Deon Butler, who got the ball to Courtney Williams just

before getting tackled.

Williams then tossed the ball to Titus Davis, who caught it at the 15 and outran three Western Kentucky players to the end zone, reaching to knock over the pylon as he fell out of bounds to complete the bizarre play.

On the conversion pass for the win, Rush tried to find Kroll again, before the play was broken up by Western Kentucky’s Wonderful Terry.

A wonderful finish, indeed.

“I want to tell Central Michigan that’s one heck of a job by them,” Western Kentucky coach Jeff Brohm said. “They showed the heart and spirit that this game is all about.”

The ending largely overshadowed a huge day by Doughty, who

threw for 486 yards.

Doughty completed 31 of 42 passes for the Hilltoppers (8-5) and capped the sixth-highest single-season touchdown total in major college football history.

Rush threw for 485 yards. He never had more than three touchdowns in a college game, and wound up being credited with five in the final 12 minutes for the Chippewas (7-6).

Hawaii Bowl: Rice 30, Fresno St. 6 HONOLULU — Driphus Jackson played his best game of the year by passing for 318 yards and three touchdowns, and Rice completed a remarkable turnaround with a in the Hawaii Bowl.

The Owls (8-5) started the season 0-3 and ended it with their second bowl win in the last three years.

NFL | Notebook

Manning intends to return to Broncos for 18th NFL season in 2015 Associated Press ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — Peyton Manning says he plans to return to the Denver Broncos in 2015 for his 18th NFL season.

Manning was asked during his weekly news conference Wednesday if there was a set of circumstances that would lead him to retire.

He replied: “I have not thought about those circumstances at all.

So, I certainly plan on being back, if the Broncos will have me. But at this point, I’m kind of thinking

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Wilson had a similar dominant performance last weekend in Arizona, this time in a victory, passing for 329 yards and a score while rushing for 88 and a touchdown. That’s twice this season he has passed for at least 300 yards and rushed for at least 85, making him the only NFL quarterback to do that in a career.

Following Wilson’s latest virtuoso performance, his name was again being brought up by national media outlets as an MVP candidate — not so much by people saying he’ll win it, but that he should at least be in the discussion. Yet on Wednesday when Pro Bowl selections were announced, Wilson wasn’t among the six quarterbacks listed.

And in a way, it’s pretty fitting that Wilson can all at once be an MVP candidate and a Pro Bowl snub. When you look at Wilson’s passing yardage totals or touchdown numbers, they don’t rank among the NFL leaders. But when you actually watch Wilson play on a regular basis, you begin to understand just how good he is and just how valuable he is, even to a team with the NFL’s best defense.

“The best way to describe it

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Wide receiver Odell Beckham and five other New York Giants were fined a total of $72,400 for their actions in Sunday’s melee-marred game in St. Louis.

While the NFL does not announce

fines for this previous weekend’s games until Friday, placekicker Josh Brown and defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins discussed the levies Wednesday after being informed they were being docked.

Jenkins said he got the biggest fine, $16,000, for driving Rams quarterback Shaun Hill into the ground after the quarterback threw an incomplete pass in the fourth quarter.

Wide receiver Preston Parker and defensive end Damontre Moore were fined $15,000 apiece for taking part in a second-quarter brawl that started when Beckham was thrown to the ground well out of bounds by linebacker Alec Ogletree. Parker and Moore were ejected after the play,

along with Rams DE William Hayes.

Beckham was fined $10,000 on the play for kicking at Ogletree after being thrown down.

Brown was docked $8,200 for making a kicking motion at a Rams player while on top of a pile following a kickoff return. Brown said he was pushed on the pile after the play was over and kicked out because someone was holding his ankle above his head. He plans to appeal the fine. He was flagged for unnecessary roughness on the play.

Long snapper Zak DeOssie was fined $8,200 for a late hit out of bounds on a punt return shortly after the melee. He was flagged for unnecessary roughness.

is that he’s an extra player on offense,” Fisher said. “They’re playing with 12 and that’s hard to defend.”

Wilson always has been elusive, frustrating pass-rushers who think they have a sack, only to end up face down in the turf as Wilson runs away. But this season, more than ever, he is taking off and running with considerable success. With 842 rushing yards and six touchdowns to go along with his 3,236 passing yards and 20 TD passes, Wilson does account for as many yards as many of the game’s top passers. If he gets 264 more passing yards and 58 rushing yards against the Rams on Sunday, he would be the first quarterback in NFL history with 3,500 passing yards and 900 rushing yards.

“It’s big,” offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell said of the threat Wilson presents with his legs. “There are some things that we kind of take for granted sometimes that we don’t think a defense can do, or are willing to do. It’s an advantage for us; it’s having an extra guy, an extra player, and they have to defend him as well. They have to decide how they want to run their pressures, how they want to run their coverages. We present problems that other teams don’t.”

And now more than ever, Wilson is taking advantage with

his arm of the mismatches his and Marshawn Lynch’s running threats present. This season, Wilson and his coaches put an emphasis on, especially in recent weeks, the quick timing passes that were not always a consistent part of the offense. And as Wilson matures and learns the game, he’s also improving at recognizing what a defense is throwing at him and he’s taking advantage of it to hit big throws, which he did repeatedly in Arizona.

“I think throughout the season you just continue to learn, continue to try to grow,” Wilson said, “‘How can I get the ball out of my hands?’ That’s been my goal the whole year ever since preseason and going on is how quick I can get the ball out of my hands.

That’s what all the great quarterbacks do. I think that in terms of Tom Brady, Drew Brees, and Peyton Manning, so I’m trying to learn that way, I’m trying to grow in that fashion.

“There’s a happy medium for me — there’s the big-play mentality, and also the scramble ability mentality where if it’s not there, I believe I can make a play, but also, I don’t have to do that the whole game. I think wearing out the defense in terms of getting the ball out and letting our guys make the plays has been a great thing for us.”

Wilson arguably should have

been picked for the Pro Bowl, though he isn’t quite the league MVP. However, in the gray area in between, his game is undeniably effective, especially if you actually watch him and don’t just look at the stats.

I’m not a big believer in using quarterback wins as a stat, because if you do that, Wilson “lost” the Rams game earlier despite a brilliant performance, when in fact it was Seattle’s special teams that let them down. And by that measure, he has “won” the Giants game this season while throwing two interceptions, no touchdowns and completing 58.8 percent of his passes. Yet quarterbacks do have more influence on the game than any other player. It’s hardly a coincidence that the Seahawks are 35-12 the past three seasons with Wilson as their starter, and have been in every single game of his career into the fourth quarter, never losing by double digits the past three seasons.

Wilson isn’t a perfect quarterback, and that’s OK. He’ll improve. For now, MVP candidate or not, Pro Bowl player or not, he is for the third consecutive year doing spectacular things while leading Seattle’s offense. So spectacular, in fact, that Fisher is liable to try something crazy again this weekend to keep Seattle’s “extra player” off the field.

about Oakland.”

Manning, 38, said he knows talk turns to the coaching carousel this time of year and “I get to fall into that category because maybe I’m closer to the same age as some of the coaches. But yeah, I have no plans along those lines. I’m enjoying playing.”

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