Everett Daily Herald, March 09, 2015

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Sounders win

This week’s watchwords

Dempsey, Martins lead 3-0 victory over New England,

PI DAY: Celebrate the enigmatic

number ... and pie... on March 14, when the date’s digits line up to equal the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — approximately 3.1415. The Snohomish Library will fete Pi with pie at 1 p.m.

Sports

PAC 12: The women’s basketball tournament

opens Thursday with WSU facing Oregon. …and for the first time Stanford is not the No. 1 seed (that distinction goes to Oregon State).

MOLLY CONLEY: Opening arguments are

this week in the trial of Erick Walker, the Marysville man accused of the drive-by shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in Lake Stevens.

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Homeless encampment cleared out Chain-link fences now block access to an area near the Everett Gospel Mission frequented by transients. By Chris Winters

was cleared away last week. On Monday, chain-link fences were installed on both sides of Smith Avenue where it runs under I-5. The lighting in the underpass has also been

Herald Writer

EVERETT — A semi-permanent homeless encampment near the Everett Gospel Mission

upgraded to make it less attractive to transients. The encampment under the freeway has existed for years, but conditions had been deteriorating recently. The underpass was littered with garbage. Drug dealing and assaults were increasing problems. Between October and

mid-January, police officers made hundreds of contacts with people in the encampment, and cited or arrested nearly 60 people, Everett Police Chief Dan Templeman said. Sylvia Anderson, CEO of the Everett Gospel Mission, said she made the suggestion to the city that something be done about

Little snow; lots of water

the encampment. “It feels like to us that things were getting out of control,” Anderson said. “The sanitary conditions were beyond what anybody should be able to bear.” It’s what happened next that was different. Anderson, See CAMP, Page A2

Tax hike mulled for parks district The Snohomish City Council wants to create a way to pay for city’s recreation areas, a decision that would have to be approved by voters. By Amy Nile Herald Writer

River basins around Central Puget Sound will be fed by 14 percent of their average snowpack, according to a March 6 report by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, part of

SNOHOMISH — The city is considering asking voters to approve a metropolitan parks taxing district. The City Council is to meet at 6 p.m. on March 17 to discuss putting the property-tax-funded measure on the Aug. 4 primary election ballot. The workshop is to take place at the Snohomish School District administration office, 1601 Ave. D. If voters approve a taxing district, the amount of the tax would be determined by the City Council. City Manager Larry Bauman suggested that property owners in Snohomish might see a 25 cent to 75 cent increase in taxes per $1,000 of assessed value. Across Washington, 18 other taxing districts have been created to pay for parks in cities and unincorporated parts of counties, including in Tacoma, Seattle and Tukwila. City Manager Larry Bauman said people living in Snohomish, in a 2014 survey, ranked better maintenance and improvements in existing city parks among their

See SNOW, Page A2

See PARKS, Page A2

Lack of the white stuff may not trickle down to problems later Herald Writer

EVERETT — The Northwest and the Northeast U.S. are making headlines about snow, but for very different reasons. From New England to the

Mid-Atlantic states, the East Coast has been battered by record-setting depths of snow and freezing temperatures. Meanwhile, the Northwest has barely had winter at all. Washington has only received about 28 percent of the snow it usually

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gets, according to the latest federal estimate. The warm winter has forced ski resorts to close early or at least significantly restrict operations, but Snohomish County should have enough water to get through the summer.

Are we there yet? Far away, and yet so close: As a Herald reader notes, the reader board on I-5 at I-405 in south Snohomish County now gives estimated travel times to Southcenter instead of downtown Seattle (Street Smarts, Page A3). Newcomers to the area will be forgiven if they, after Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8

seeing the board announce “Southcenter 135 minutes” during rush hour, assume Southcenter is a city somewhere in Oregon. Fabulous human shield: Madonna, 56, says a rigorous workout regimen that keeps her in tip-top shape saved her from injury when she tumbled down

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Opinion. . . . . .A7 Short Takes . . . B4

some stairs during a recent performance (Short Takes, Page B4). But Madonna’s not leaving anything to chance: From now on, a 22-year-old boy toy dancer will be stationed at all times to cushion any falls she might take. Don’t know much about history: On this day in Sports . . . . . . . C1 Winners . . . . . B1

1933, Congress was called into special session by President Franklin Roosevelt to enact the “hundred days” of New Deal legislation (Today in History, Page B4). The surprising thing is that today’s Congress is capable of similar legislative output — they’d just need a hundred years to do it.

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Cameron Collingwood, 16, scrambles across a rocky outcropping near the summit of Mount Pilchuck on Saturday. Though icy, the popular trail that leads to a restored fire lookout has been accessible earlier this year with low snow levels in the Cascades.

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