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Notorious ship to stop by The company operating the Noble Discoverer pleaded guilty to eight felonies while drilling for oil off Alaska in ‘12. By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
EVERETT — A drilling ship with a controversial past will stop at the Port of Everett next week to
load and unload cargo, according to a port spokeswoman. The port hasn’t received any berth requests, so no further details are available, she said. The ship, the Noble Discoverer,
is coming to Puget Sound as part of Royal Dutch Shell’s plans to do exploratory drilling in Arctic waters this summer. It is part of a fleet to be parked in Puget Sound in coming weeks that is targeted by environmental activists. The energy company is still trying to get permits required to drill in the Chukchi Sea off
Alaska’s northwest coast. The vessel coming to Everett has a 175-foot-tall oil derrick, and it can drill oil wells 20,000 feet below ground and in 1,000-foot-deep water, according to the website of its owner, Noble Corp., a London-based See SHIP, back page, this section
Healing through music Marysville fourth-graders to perform with the Seattle Symphony
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Violinist Swil Kanim gives lessons to young students in Brenda Ehrhardt’s music class April 13 at Sunnyside Elementary School in Marysville. The students are performing with the Seattle Symphony next week.
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MARYSVILLE — Fourthgraders here are practicing for an experience of a lifetime. Early next week, Marysville students will make music with the Seattle Symphony in Benaroya Hall. They and students from more than 100 other schools around the region are set to play their recorders and sing, accompanied by the Grammy award-winning orchestra. The symphony staff, touched by the shooting at Marysville Pilchuck High earlier this
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school year, waived fees and made sure that fourth-grade students at most of Marysville’s elementary schools were able to participate. Music heals, they said. Concerts with kids are part of the symphony’s music education outreach curriculum, which is based on New York’s Carnegie Hall Link Up program. Rhythm is the focus of this year’s “The Orchestra Rocks” program. At Sunnyside Elementary, Jace Maier, 10, said he can’t wait to perform “O Fortuna,” the famous tune from Carl Orff ’s cantata “Carmina Burana.”
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“I like the repetitive beats of that song,” Jace said. It’s heady stuff. Students will play and sing the tune “Come to Play,” participate in a minimalist, modern composition “In C” by Terry Riley and in a rhythmic call-and-response piece with the Chief Sealth High School drumline. They will listen to the orchestra play a movement of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4, Holst’s “Mars” from “The Planets” and Grieg’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King” from “Peer Gynt.” Denisha Delatour-Nash, 9, is excited, but nervous about the
Not loving it McQuinoa, anyone? McDonald’s is adding the trendy ingredient kale to some menu items. The fastfood giant is testing a Turkey Sausage & Egg White bowl that uses the dark leafy green (Page A7). I’ll eat it, but only if I can put it between two all-beef Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . B6
upcoming concert. Her friend, Brandy Mendoza, 10, is thrilled about the trip to Seattle. “I’ve never even been to a symphony concert before,” Brandy said. “I am so happy.” Ava Ferris, 10, said she already knows she will remember the concert for the rest of her life. “And I will tell my children all about it,” Ava said. That’s the goal, said Stephanie Rodousakis, the symphony’s school program’s manager. “We want students to become musicians quickly and have a
patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. Burgle, burgle: After a long hiatus, the Hamburglar has returned to McDonald’s ads. The sirloin purloiner, shown flipping burgers on a backyard grill, apparently has been living in suburbia (Page A2).
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Life hasn’t been as kind to Ronald McDonald’s other friends during their absence. Mayor McCheese was indicted on bribery charges. Grimace is being treated for seasonal affective disorder. And the Fry Guys lost their job to the Kale Whale. Day 1: Loaves and fishes. Day 2: Repeat: Best-selling Sports . . . . . . . C1 Stocks . . . . . . .A8
Wider disaster response now law Gov. Jay Inslee signs a bill that allows fire resources to be called and rapidly deployed for nonfire emergencies across the state. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday plugged a gap in state law that prevented the rapid call-up and deployment of fire resources from throughout Washington to the Oso mudslide. Inslee signed a new law ensuring firefighting resources can be mobilized statewide to respond to natural disasters, outbreaks of contagious disease and nonfire emergencies. Fire chiefs from Snohomish County and around the state have pushed for such clarity for nearly a decade without success. Their efforts gained immediacy after a request for help at the March 22, 2014, mudslide was denied because the incident was not a fire. Forty-three people died when the hillside above the Steelhead Haven gave way. “It wouldn’t have made a difference in the outcome of the day,” said Chief Travis Hots of Fire District 21, who attended the bill signing. “It brought to life that fire services is an all-risk organization. You name it. People call and need our help and we respond.” Assistant Chief Bob Eastman of Fire District 1, who also attended, said it erases any uncertainty. “If we have an event in the future, we know when we ask the resources will be coming.” he said. “That’s why we’re here.” The law also spells out that fire departments, fire districts and regional fire protection authorities are eligible for reimbursement of expenses incurred as part of any mobilization. “The last thing that should be on a fire chief’s mind is, ‘How am I going to pay for it?’ ” Hots said. Washington lawmakers passed the original wildfire mobilization law two decades ago. Until the mudslide, state mobilizations had occurred 180 times, according to state data. The request for Oso was the only formal denial because fire chiefs had pretty much stopped making requests for nonfire incidents, since the state Attorney General’s Office issued an opinion criticizing use of the law for the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle. The only other nonfire mobilization was See LAW, Page A2
pastor Rick Warren won the Christian Book of the Year Award for his new weightloss book, “The Daniel Plan,” based on the biblical story of Daniel refusing to eat meat from the king’s table (Page D6). We didn’t realize Babylonia had Burger King restaurants at the time. —Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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