Everett Daily Herald, January 10, 2015

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Dominination

The to-do list Go Hawks! Watch the Hawks play on the big screen at Historic Everett Theatre then see a concert by Heart by Heart. A $15-$30 ticket gets you in for both. Doors open at 4:15 p.m., game is at 5:15 p.m. and concert is at 8:30 p.m. www.historiceveretttheatre.org

Hawks’ defense by the numbers and a new poster!

Skates and shots: A public skating session and vaccination clinic is from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. today at Xfinity Arena Community Ice Rink. Anyone can skate for free and low-income adults can receive shots to help prevent flu, whooping cough and pneumonia.

Sports

Jam: Compete for prizes at the Open Season Rail Jam at Stevens Pass today. Register at Granite Peaks Lodge from 9 to 10 a.m. Skiers compete at noon and snowboarders at 1 p.m. More info is at www.stevenspass.com. ●

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39 years for nurse’s death Joseph Strange was high on meth and driving a stolen truck the night he led police on a high-speed chase before slamming into Rachael Kamin. By Diana Hefley Herald Writer

EVERETT — Her two boys can no longer look up into the stands to see

their proud mom, wearing a football jersey, cheering them on. She was their biggest fan and she is gone. The boys have quit football. They are without their mother’s cheering, guidance and kindness. The man responsible for stealing Rachael Kamin from her husband and teenage sons was sentenced Friday to 39 years in prison. He apologized but Joseph Strange, 35, said he knows there is nothing he

can say to make up for what he did, what he stole. “She had so much more to give to this world and all I’ve done is take,” Strange said. The longtime car thief told Superior Court Judge Linda Krese that he didn’t deserve leniency after being convicted of murder. “I failed as a human being. I failed the community,” Strange said. “I wish See STRANGE, Page A7

Everett to study parking problem

Joseph Strange, at his trial in November

The city has already taken steps to add spaces as the economy improves and more people are working and shopping downtown.

Center needs funds to survive

By Chris Winters

It’s the only mixed performance and classroom space in Marysville

Herald Writer

bring in the rest. Randall acknowledged that it won’t be easy to raise that much money from the community, but she is nevertheless hopeful that, even if they fall short, they’ll be able to come to an agreement with their landlords.

EVERETT — Can’t find parking downtown? That might be a good thing. The gradual rebound of the economy has led to more business activity, and that means commuters, visitors and anyone else with something to do downtown needs a bit more parking karma to get a decent spot. In 2015, the city of Everett will undertake a new parking study to develop policies to more efficiently manage on-street parking and possibly encourage the development of more off-street capacity. The new study will be similar to the last one, seven years ago. “In 2008, when we completed our study, we were right at the end of the last boom business cycle,” city engineer Ryan Sass said. Then the economy went sour. “Things happened, the world changed and that economic paradigm was pretty much over,” Sass added. “You didn’t need to do a formal study to see parking utilization was way down and business occupancy was way down,” he said. A new study won’t be completed until later in the year, but the city has already taken steps to add parking capacity downtown. The city adopted regulations that require Snohomish County to provide 312 parking spaces for a planned new courthouse building, threatening to derail the entire project. The city and county are in negotiations, but the disagreement points to a growing need throughout downtown for new spaces and policies. Likely to be reconsidered in coming months are zoning rules, adopted in 2006,

See CENTER, Page A7

See PARKING, Page A7

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Marysville Getchell student Emily Loutsis, 15, warms up before performing Friday night at the Red Curtain Arts Center Strawberry City Acoustic Jam. The open mike nights will be held on the second Friday of every month.

By Chris Winters Herald Writer

the buzz

MARYSVILLE — The Red Curtain Arts Center has been operating its mixed performance and classroom space just north of downtown Marysville. The nonprofit’s lease on the former Dunn Lumber store is

expiring at the end of January, and Red Curtain’s landlords intend not to renew it. Instead of just listing the building for sale, however, the Dunn family has given the Red Curtain Foundation a shot at buying the building at a significant discount, said Beckye Randall, a board member for the

Not too Swift The suspect was described as 7-foot-1 and having no game: Robert Swift, the ex-Sonic first-round bust who has fallen on a whole bunch of really gnarly selfinflicted hard times since his basketball career went down in flames, was caught up in some alleged illegal and zany high jinks out in Gold Bar on Tuesday (Page A3).

As of this writing, Swift is cooling his heels in the King County Jail. Judge Buzz recommends he be remanded to the custody of former Sonics general manager Wally Walker. Tanned, rested and ready: Mitt Romney has told family to tell friends to tell the media he’s considering a presidential run in 2016 (Page A9).

foundation. All Red Curtain needs now is to raise enough money for a down payment: $120,000. It believes it has $70,000 lined up from business and community groups, and now it’s running an online fundraiser on Indiegogo (tinyurl.com/Red CurtainFundraiser) to try and

This can mean only one thing: Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum can’t sit on the sidelines any longer. Everybody goes to college! Everybody goes to college! Saying a high school diploma is no longer sufficient to land a decentpaying job, President Barack Obama on Friday proposed a national

program to provide free community college tuition (Page A10). Students in the program would need to attend an accredited school at least half-time, maintain at least a 2.5 grade-point average and promise not to major in the following fields: art history, English lit, philosophy and journalism.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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