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Changes at jail paying off By Scott North Herald Writer
EVERETT — Reforms aimed at making the Snohomish County Jail safer for inmates and staff also appear to be helping bring spending under control. The jail ended 2013 having
overspent nearly $830,000 on daily operations, with an additional $2.8 million hit from a labor contract settlement. That followed a 2012 performance during which spending was about $2 million above budget. In sharp contrast, the county’s books show the jail in 2014 not
only operated within its roughly $100 million annual budget, but it ended the year with a cushion of about $35,000, said Joanie Fadden, finance manager at the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office. “It’s very close, but we are under budget,” she said last week.
The jail is run by the sheriff’s office. When Sheriff Ty Trenary took over in July 2013 he inherited a building plagued by questions over a string of inmate deaths and spiraling overtime costs. Trenary responded by See JAIL, Page A2
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Push for union vote at plant Machinists ask the NLRB for an election at Boeing’s facility in North Charleston, South Carolina, a right-towork state. Associated Press and Herald staff
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With Mount Baker looming before her, a photographer frames an image in her camera from the end of a pier Friday at the Edmonds Marina. The weather forecast calls for a chance of showers and mild temperatures this week. See Page C6.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers on Monday asked for an election so about 2,400 Boeing production workers here can decide whether they want union representation. Union spokesman Frank Larkin said that the Machinists have petitioned the National Labor Relations Board and that under agency rules, 30 percent of the workers in a potential bargaining unit must sign cards that they want a vote. “We are confident we have achieved the minimum requirement, and now the board will determine the exact number of people eligible to vote and then they will set and conduct the election,” he said. South Carolina is a so-called right-to-work state where workers cannot be compelled to join a union or pay dues to a union as a condition of employment. IAM representation of even a portion of Boeing workers in See UNION, Page A4
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Son lost to slide will always be remembered with love Herald Writer
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Alan Bejvl and Delaney Webb
children. He inspires her to urge others to cherish family, friends and time. “Alan would be so mad if I curled up in a ball and wilted away,” she said.
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DARRINGTON — Their son’s touch is all around them. It is in the log bed where they sleep at night. It’s in the coffee table and patio chairs, the mirror hanging on the kitchen wall and in the magazine rack with the word “Mom” and two hearts burned into the wood. Alan Bejvl was 21, long, lean and hard working. The Oso mudslide took him and 42 others a year ago Sunday. His body was found near Delaney Webb, a former Darrington High School classmate he’d planned to marry last August. Diana Bejvl often thinks about the youngest of her three
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So, she pushes through her grief, telling herself: “While our family is forever altered, we are still forever family.” She hands out business cards that say: “Thru this day and ALWAYS, let us REMEMBER what is truly important: LOVE.” Always remember love. The message seems the best way to honor her son. John and Diana Bejvl left well-paying jobs in the suburbs a quarter-century ago to raise their family on a farm nestled in the foothills of the North Cascades. There was no TV reception, no video games on the Bejvl spread a half mile as the crow flies from the nearest neighbors. What they had was each other. When the children were old enough to help
Putin on the fritz? Hanging out with Kim Jong-un? Out of public sight for 10 days, Russian President Vladimir Putin resurfaced and appeared to be in good health. Among the rumors were that he was dead, ill or with the Olympic gymnast who gave birth to their baby (Page A6). Dear Abby . . . B3 Good Life . . . . B1
events, where to >> Oso-related donate for relief, A3 with chores, they did. They made their own fun. “We have absolutely no regrets,” Diana said. “We are never sorry for not being able to do the expensive things. Love is what you take with you. Now that we are where we are, I look at how grateful I am we made a choice that (gave) us the family time we had. That’s what gets me through.” Alan got to know Delaney in a high school shop class where he showed her how to use a tape measure. He was two years older. Time passed. He finished school. He kept in touch with Delaney on Facebook.
The truth was much more mundane: “‘House of Cards’ on Netflix we were bingewatching,” Putin said. “Is romantic comedy, no?” Bribes go better with Coke: Coca-Cola, Frito-Lay and other snack giants are paying nutrition bloggers to say their products can be part of a healthy diet. “Every big
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brand works with bloggers or has paid talent,” said a Coke spokesman (Page A7). In turn, the nutrition bloggers have hired their own “paid talent” to reassure them they haven’t sold out and shouldn’t be ashamed of themselves. Would you like a Band-Aid with that? A national union Short Takes . . B4 Sports . . . . . . C1
Delaney started messaging him. Eventually she asked if he would like to get together some time. Alan wondered: You mean like a date? He’d never been on one, much less had a girlfriend. Delaney told him she would be embarrassed if he said no. He wouldn’t allow that. They met that Wednesday because neither could wait for the weekend. Beaming, Alan came home and told his mom: “I think this can go somewhere.” It was Delaney who kissed Alan first. Diana is thankful to the young woman who loved her son and treated him right. “She took really good care of See LOVE, Page A2
is gathering the complaints of McDonald’s workers who are detailing workplace safety issues, including a manager who told an employee to put mayonnaise on a burn (Page A7). If that management career doesn’t work out, we’re sure he could find work as a health care blogger.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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