Everett Daily Herald, May 02, 2015

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Hawks nab Frank Clark, Tyler Lockett in rounds 2 and 3 of NFL draft C1

Seattle’s May Day starts well, turns violent A7

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Medics call for apology Those who helped treat four of the wounded teens say false statements by UW Medicine only added to their pain. By Rikki King Herald Writer

MARYSVILLE — Medics who provided emergency care to four critically wounded teenagers at Marysville Pilchuck High School

on Oct. 24 now say they are owed an apology from UW Medicine. Seattle medical leaders’ false statements regarding the onscene decision-making added pain to what was already the saddest day in many emergency

responders’ lives, said Dean Shelton, speaking for Local 3219, the union that represents 91 Marysville firefighters and paramedics. Shelton, a paramedic and fire captain, also is the representative for more than 800 firefighters in the northern region of the Washington State Council of Fire Fighters.

“We knew the truth would come out,” Shelton said Friday morning. “We knew that our members had met all industry standards. We knew our members had provided the greatest care... and with time, those (UW) statements would be proven wrong.” See APOLOGY, Page A5

A safe bet for fun

Another wave of one-day strikes Teachers in Marysville and Oak Harbor join the call for fully funded education, an action some lawmakers want punished. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

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The last leg of the fourth race is under way Sunday afternoon at Emerald Downs Racetrack in Auburn. Racing fans who can’t make it to Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby can still feed their need for speed — or people-watching or any number of other fun activities. There are seven to 10 races daily at Emerald Downs racetrack, along with special events such as today’s Kentucky Derby party with a hat contest, mint juleps and family events. See Venture, A13.

OLYMPIA — As the wave of one-day teacher strikes reached Marysville on Friday, some state senators said they would like to punish picketing educators by not paying them. Classes were canceled in the Marysville School District as hundreds of teachers and supporters gathered on State Avenue to wave signs and loudly protest for higher pay and smaller class sizes. “Our emphasis was fully funding education, which is required by the (state) Constitution, which says it is the paramount duty of the state,” said Randy Davis, president of the Marysville Education Association. Marysville teachers are particularly frustrated by crowded classrooms, and they chanted vociferously for lawmakers to carry out Initiative 1351, which requires fewer students in classes at all grade levels, Davis said. Teachers in Oak Harbor also walked off the job Friday. In all, teachers in 24 Western Washington school districts voted to conduct one-day walkouts, including one next Friday in Granite Falls. In Olympia this week, Republican senators denounced the job actions. They said such strikes are illegal under state law, but because the law is widely ignored, participants face no consequences, not even a loss of earnings in districts where the collective bargaining agreement prohibits such behavior. See STRIKES, Page A5

Lawmakers: New rail-safety rules inadequate Herald Writer

the buzz

Rail-safety rules announced Friday would phase out older tank cars used to transport crude oil and impose new restrictions on oil shipments, but several federal lawmakers from Washington said those steps don’t go far enough. Up to a dozen trains pass

through Snohomish County every week, each carrying more than 1 million gallons of Bakken crude to refineries in Skagit and Whatcom counties. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s long-anticipated rules require stricter manufacturing standards for tank cars beginning in October, and the retrofitting of older models. The agency also mandated phasing out older,

Hipster’s dilemma Do I give up my tattoo or my heartbeat? Some early adopters of the Apple Watch, Apple’s hip new device, are learning that its heart monitor malfunctions if the wearer has a wrist tattoo, a problem for Apple’s “target demographic” of young, tech-saavvy people with tattoos (Page A9). Apple says its working on

a patch to fix the problems. But it’s not a software patch; it’s an actual patch to cover the tattoo. This one will need a software patch: Boeing has alerted the FAA to a glitch that it discovered in testing software for the 787. If the airliner’s power is left on continuously for 248 days, the software shuts down the electrical system, which

more explosion-prone tank cars known as DOT-111s within three years. Other changes would force oil shippers to slow down trains in urban areas, use better braking systems on those trains and share information with local agencies about hazardous materials. U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., called it “more of a status quo rule than the real safety change needed.”

would lead to a loss of control of the airplane (Page A9). This is what happens when you repurpose computer code that was meant for the coffeemakers in the galley. Channel-surfing the vast cultural wasteland: Scarlett Johansson, who plays the svelte superhero Black Widow in “Avengers: Age of

“This proposal is slow to get the most dangerous cars off the rails and doesn’t address the volatility of the crude oil that’s being shipped,” Cantwell said. “With the level of volatility and explosions that we’ve seen around the country in the past several months, we want to be aggressive about protecting first responders and the general public.” Regulators have struggled to

Ultron,” which opened Friday, is the host of “Saturday Night Live,” at 11:30 p.m. on NBC. Expect Johansson to wear her form-fitting costume in at least one sketch if not the opening monologue (The Clicker, Page C8). And expect most of the male “SNL” cast members to drop their lines and stare blankly at Johansson. It’s her superpower, after all.

—Jon Bauer, Herald staff

catch up with the Bakken oil surge over the past four years. Derailments have caused explosions and oil spills this year in Canada, North Dakota, West Virginia and Illinois. A crude-oil train killed 47 people in the small Quebec town of Lac-Megantic when it crashed and exploded in 2013. See RAIL, Page A5

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