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Bill: Health trumps beliefs Citing more measle and flu outbreaks, state Rep. June Robinson introduces a bill that would no longer allow parents to not vaccinate their child because of personal conviction. By Jerry Cornfield and Sharon Salyer Herald writers
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Lura Dunn leaves her home in Bothell for a run with her 5-year-old flat-coated retriever, Ronin, on Jan. 29. Dunn will be competing with Ronin at the Westminster Kennel Club All Breed Dog Show in New York on Feb. 16 and 17.
11 local purebreds will vie for Best in Show at the Westminster dog show By Amy Nile and Kari Bray • Herald Writers
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t’s the Super Bowl of dog shows. And 11 Snohomish County purebreds are going to strut their stuff on the green carpet at the 139th annual Westminster Kennel Club All Breed Dog Show in New York. The canines are competing for the top purple-and-gold ribbon at the prestigious event, scheduled for Feb. 16 and 17. The top five dogs in each
breed are invited to compete, but other dogs can be entered. Lynn Mathers, of Arlington, received one of the 600 invitations sent this year. Her dog, Mercedes, is the No. 1 Kerry Blue Terrier in the nation. “Mercedes has a spark to her,” Mathers said. “You want a dog that goes into the ring and says, ‘I own the ring, the handler’s just here to hold my leash.’ ”
Mathers has been invited to Westminster several times and went to the show once four years ago, but this is the first time she’s had a top dog. The 4-year-old terrier also is trained as a service dog. Mathers was injured while serving in the U.S. Air Force and started relying on a wheelchair in 1998. The Kerry Blue Terriers she breeds are trained to pull her wheelchair. She also plans to get
Mercedes certified as a therapy dog to offer emotional support after disasters. “All of the local dogs that are heading to Westminster, they are the cream of the crop,” Mathers said. Lura Dunn and David Kerschner, of Bothell, are going to See SHOW, back page, this section
When state Rep. June Robinson of Everett thought of the issues she wanted to focus on in this year’s session, rewriting rules for vaccinations wasn’t one of them. But outbreaks of flu and measles changed her mind. On Wednesday, she introduced a bill that would no longer allow parents to not vaccinate their child because of personal beliefs. “I didn’t come to the Legislature planning to drop this bill. But the outbreaks are coming more quickly one after another,” she said Thursday. “We have got to get a handle on this.” Health officials agree. Dr. Gary Goldbaum, health officer for the Snohomish Health District, said he feels the proposed legislation “is very appropriate.” “I support every child being vaccinated,” he said. “Anyone who chooses not to vaccinate a child is misunderstanding the See SHOTS, Page A2
District wants to widen full-day kindergarten scope
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EVERETT — This school year, Everett has been able to provide full-day kindergarten to about 1,300 students at 10 schools. Of those, the state pays for the program at six schools. The other four programs are paid by Everett
Public Schools, which is spending $1.1 million this year. Full-day kindergarten is a good indicator of future student achievement. Not reading well by the end of the first grade, for example, is correlated with less success in later school years, said Lynn Lahey, the district’s early learning curriculum specialist.
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Low-income and minority children tend to benefit the most from full-day kindergarten, and teachers have the time to help students retain what they are taught, she added. “We also know children need multiple repetitions, multiple opportunities to learn a skill,” Lahey said. “When you have only half a day it limits your time for kids to have that practice.” District officials asked the school board at a recent meeting to continue the funding next year. But everything depends on the outcome of the Legislature’s
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budget sessions. The board was generally receptive to maintaining the expense. “I struggled a bit with committing $1 million to full-day kindergarten, but you’ve erased any doubts I might have had,” board director Carol Andrews said. The district’s budgeting process won’t begin in earnest until the summer, after the Legislature has approved a budget. The state is required to fund full-day kindergarten by the 2017-18 school year, but it is also wrestling with multiple
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obligations to fund basic education, decrease class size, and get schools to implement national Common Core standards. The rollout of full-day kindergarten started in 2007 at Hawthorne Elementary, a school in which nearly 90 percent of the students are on free or reducedprice lunch programs. The state’s level of funding has gradually increased since then, targeting those schools with the next highest percentage of See KINDERGARTEN, back page, this section
layer by layer from a mix of concrete and recycled glass and steel. The 3-D printer constructs buildings in less time that traditional methods (Page A9). It would have been done sooner, but the foreman’s daughter had to print a report for school that morning.
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Everett Public Schools wants to bring the program to more schools, but needs funding from Olympia. By the 2017-18 school year, the state is required to fund all-day kindergarten.
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