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Streets ‘Team Jaylen’ shirts stir alarm fil-A Apparent show of support for shooter seen on campus, Tulalip reservation traffic MARYSVILLE PILCHUCK SHOOTINGS
Herald Writer
MARYSVILLE — The Marysville School District and the Tulalip Tribes are having a conversation about how to react to
T-shirts that are cropping up in apparent support of the shooter who killed four classmates in October. The “Team Jaylen” T-shirts reference Jaylen Fryberg, who took his own life after shooting five
Last week, some tribal members who showed up for their jobs at Tulalip offices wearing the shirts were sent home. Tribal board chairman Mel Sheldon wrote a letter to district Superintendent Becky Berg last week asking for a district-wide ban on the shirts and similar items. “This attire creates an See SHIRTS, Page A2
Lifesaving tool hits streets A spray that can prevent deaths from heroin and painkiller overdoses will be issued to police in Snohomish County. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
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Dr. Adam Kartman demonstrates how the drug Narcan can be administered into the nose of a person who has overdosed on an opiate-based drug, during a training for first responders at the south precinct of the Everett Police Department on Monday.
local firefighters. While emergency medical professionals have used Narcan for decades, it is relatively new for law enforcement. Each kit costs about $40. Dr. Adam Kartman, who has been training police in Snohomish County in recent weeks, said it only makes sense to put Narcan in the hands of police since they are often the first on scene.
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EVERETT — Police from several agencies across Snohomish County soon will be armed with a life-saving spray. In recent weeks, law enforcement officers have been getting training in the use of naloxone, better known as Narcan. The prescription medication is used on people who have overdosed on heroin or painkiller opiates, such as morphine, oxycodone or Vicodin. The training comes at a time when overdose deaths from heroin and opiates have been on the rise in Snohomish County and elsewhere in Washington. From 2011 to 2013, roughly one out of every five heroin deaths in the state occurred in the county. In 2013 alone, heroin and prescription opioid overdoses represented two-thirds of the 130 accidental overdose deaths in the county, according to the Snohomish Health District. People here now are more likely to be killed by an overdose than a car crash. “It just goes back to we can’t arrest our way out of the problem,” Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office spokeswoman Shari Ireton said. “This (Narcan) is part of a multi-faceted approach. It’s just one more tool.” Often times, particularly in rural areas with volunteer fire departments, deputies arrive before medics to 911 calls. “Our goal is to get everyone in patrol trained,” Ireton said. “Our emphasis is on deputies in more outlying areas.” Equipping them with Narcan increases the odds of saving lives, she said. A case in point is the Lummi Indian Reservation in Whatcom County. Police there saved 10 people over the course of a year, more than twice the number by
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He puts them at ease by explaining that the Narcan is a nasal spray that can do no harm. It also can be given by injection, but police won’t be working with needles. Narcan blocks the effects of opioid overdose, which includes shallow breathing. If administered in time, it can reverse
— Dr. Adam Kartman
Keeping it simple: Personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary recommends a new book by a guy who advocates financial plans so simple they can be written on a cocktail napkin (Page A7). It all depends on which cocktail napkin. A plan writ-
ten on the first napkin of the evening will advise living within your means, saving for retirement, etc. A plan written on the fifth napkin, on the other hand, will consist of stock tips from somebody’s brother-in-law. Drop and give me 20: Fitness fads come and go, but the old standbys — squats,
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By Rikki King Herald Writer
LYNNWOOD — Chick-filA is set to open in Lynnwood on Thursday. The Southern fast-food chain, known for simple chicken sandwiches on buttered buns, is sure to bring a buzz — and traffic. Recent openings in Bellevue and Tacoma have caused clogged streets and bottle-necked intersections, with problems persisting for weeks. Each Chick-fil-A opening also is accompanied by a 24-hour campout for the “First 100.” That’s a marketing campaign that gives a year of free meals to the first 100 adult customers who live in certain local ZIP codes. Chick-fil-A has agreed to pay for off-duty police officers to direct traffic at the Lynnwood location, city spokeswoman Julie Moore said. Similar arrangements were made in Bellevue and Tacoma. “They’re really just going to be there to make sure people can get in and out of the parking lot safely and efficiently,” Moore said. The restaurant at 3026 196th St. SW sits in the same parking lot as Lowe’s, south of the Alderwood mall, and along one of Lynnwood’s most congested thoroughfares. It will be open 6:30 a.m. until 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday, though Day 1 will start a half-hour earlier. The restaurant will employ 80 people and have 124 indoor seats, plus a patio, according to a news release. A corporate spokesman declined to discuss sales figures from the Bellevue and Tacoma openings, saying only they’ve “been one for the books.” Meanwhile, Bellevue police have posted officers at the 116th Avenue NE location since the opening, officer Seth Tyler said. That’s the city’s fifth-busiest intersection, according to a story in The Herald’s sister paper, The Bellevue Reporter. See CHICK-FIL-A, Page A2
native Texan explains her >> Aunabashed love for Chick-
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“It’s not holy water. It doesn’t bring back the dead.”
The opening of Chick-fil-A on Thursday is expected to generate gridlock in Lynnwood.
push-ups and the like — remain the best way to stay fit, trainers say (Page B1). Yeah, but “New Fitness Miracle: The Exercises You Hated in High School P.E. Class” sounds like the most dismal late-night infomercial ever made. Don’t know much about history: On this day in
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1934, the very first “Three Stooges” short was released (Today in History, Page B4). Within a few days, parents across America were dealing with a wave of eye-pokes, nose-honks and head-conks, with annoying kid brothers the usual recipients.
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friends in a Marysville Pilchuck High School cafeteria. The shirts were worn by several Marysville Pilchuck students at a school assembly April 24, marking six months since the shooting. The shirts were originally created a few years ago, after Fryberg was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. The shirts feature a large blue “O” with smaller blue ribbons, international symbols for diabetes awareness.
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