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Edmonds will add school cameras New policy calls for security cameras to be installed in public areas. By Sharon Salyer Herald Writer
France on Dec. 8, 1944, and fought in the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive where many Allied soldiers were killed. His division, the 42nd Infantry, pushed into Germany on Easter Sunday, 1945. Seeing the Dachau concentration camp was “a most horrific experience,” he wrote. His division later joined the occupation forces in Austria, several villages in the Alps, and Vienna. As a staff sergeant, Martinson
EDMONDS — The Edmonds School District hopes to install security cameras in all its schools during the 201516 school year. Several In doing so, the school district will join others through- districts are out the county enhancing beefing up secu- security, A2 rity, including Everett, Marysville, Monroe, and Mukilteo. Some Edmonds schools already have exterior security cameras, among them Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace and Edmonds Woodway high schools and Meadowdale Middle School. Now the school district plans to install a new Web-based system, inside and outside schools and administration buildings. “This is not just bringing cameras to the campus, but to all our facilities,” said Stewart Mhyre, the school district’s executive director for business and operations. A new policy, adopted in March by the Edmonds School Board, calls for cameras to be installed in public areas such as parking lots, entrances, exits, hallways, gymnasiums, cafeterias and libraries. Signs will be posted alerting passersby that they might be video recorded. The images collected by the cameras could be used in cases of student and employee
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Retired U.S. Coast Guard commander Richard Martinson (left) presents World War II veteran Robert Martinson the French Legion of Honor “chevalier” at ManorCare in Lynnwood on Saturday. Martinson was notified he had won the highest honor France awards to noncitizens in January.
France recognizes WWII veteran’s bravery, service By Rikki King
French government. The family had gathered to watch as Bob Martinson, 90, was awarded the rank of chevalier, or knight, in the French Legion of Honor, that country’s highest distinction. Martinson is “a true national hero” who helped free the world from Nazi domination, the French government wrote. He served in the U.S. Army from July 1943 to April 1946 and saw combat in France, Germany and Austria. His writings describe the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp,
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YNNWOOD — Robert “Bob” Martinson listened quietly as his words from years ago were read aloud. He had written down the details of his service in World War II when his memories were sharper. His cousin, Richard Martinson, a retired U.S. Coast Guard commander himself, read Martinson’s combat biography aloud on Saturday, along with a statement from the
where 1,500 prisoners were found dead in box cars. Martinson, who previously was awarded the Bronze Star, lives in Lake Forest Park. That city’s mayor, Mary Jane Goss, attended Saturday’s ceremony at ManorCare Health Services in Lynnwood. It was only after she arrived that she realized she also knew Martinson from the Shoreline YMCA, she said. “It’s pretty amazing the people who live in Lake Forest Park,” she said. Bob Martinson landed in
State auditor a no-show at legislative committee hearing OLYMPIA — Embattled state Auditor Troy Kelley skipped a chance to testify before lawmakers Wednesday, a development that has them pondering their subpoena power.
But Kelley can’t evade an inquiry from Gov. Jay Inslee on the operation of the auditor’s office since a federal probe of Kelley became public last month. Inslee sent Kelley a letter Tuesday with questions about the day-to-day running of the agency and the activities of an employee,
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Jason Jerue, who is a central figure in the investigation. Inslee requested answers by April 6. Kelley’s home was searched by federal agents last month and his office turned over records to a federal grand jury, which has been asking questions about his former escrow-services business.
Audible gasp Tell me a story: Audible, the audiobook seller, asked actor Aidan Gillen, who plays the scheming Littlefinger on “Game of Thrones,” to record the narration for Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War,” an ancient how-to on military strategy (Page D6). Why stop there? Other ceDear Abby . . . D5 Horoscope . . . B4
Inslee released the letter Wednesday morning and Kelley responded in the afternoon. “While the intense media coverage may have been a distraction, there is no change or impact on our audit and field operations,” Kelley wrote. He also included details of
lebrity audiobook narration we’d like to see: State Auditor Troy Kelley reading “RecordKeeping for Dummies”; murder suspect and “Jinx” documentary subject Robert Durst reading Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood”; and presidential candidate and filibuster phenom Ted Cruz reading Dr. Seuss’ “Green Eggs and Ham.”
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Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Tonight on PBS, the “This Old House” crew sands, stains and seals a wood floor (The Clicker, Page D6). It must be pledge week. This may be the biggest draw for PBS since original host Bob Vila’s famous “watching paint dry” two-parter. Sports . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . . A8
Jerue’s employment. Inslee made his letter public shortly after the Senate Accountability and Reform Committee conducted a hearing that Kelley did not attend. Sen. Mark Miloscia, R-Federal See KELLEY, Page A5
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1982, Argentina seized the Falkland Islands from Britain. By June, Britain had retaken the islands (Today in History, Page D6). And just a month after that a colony of southern rockhopper penguins took the island from the British.
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