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the pesticide. “People are wising up,” McKinney said. “But the United States is behind the curve.” She said most other countries have banned the pesticide. But the genetic seed giant Monsanto Co. spends so much money is this country that it’s hard
to fight. Nehring said he wasn’t sure if the city used that pesticide, but he would check. McKinney said there are other options. Instead of chemicals, she said lady bugs are like a natural pesticide, along with companion
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Marysville Mayor Jon Nehring visits with Kellogg Marsh secondgraders, while part of the memorial garden for Grace Tam at the school now has beefriendly plants.
SEE BEES, PAGE 2
Arlington family’s fatal brother-sister feud ends in guilty plea BY STEVE POWELL spowell@arlingtontimes.com
ARLINGTON – When David Walter Thorsen’s dad died, he moved in with his mom in a small, old rural home northeast of town for two months. But he apparently didn’t like her much. In a letter found in his
r o o m addressed “D e are s t M o m ” David Thorsen d a t e d May 27, 2013, he used disparaging language and curse words toward his mother, Betty, with the hope that she would die. Less than two weeks
later, on June 8, Betty Elaine Thorsen, 80, was dead, having fallen down the home’s basement steps. David Thorsen found her there and called police, who arrived at about 5:43 a.m. Thorsen’s older sister, Karen Harris, 53, arrived later at the home at 13229 240th St. NE. In a suicide note found
next to the other letter, Thorsen wrote that he didn’t care much for his older sister either. He used disparaging remarks about her, saying she was not to receive any property upon his death. According to charging papers: Thorsen later tried to kill himself, but was unsuccess-
ful. He did kill his sister, however, and pleaded guilty May 7. Thorsen, now 52, will be sentenced June 11. The range is 12 to 18 years. He has been in jail since June 9, 2013, on seconddegree murder charges with bail set at $1 million. Prosecutor Hal Hupp said SEE MURDER, PAGE 2
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MARYSVILLE – When Kellogg Marsh teacher Barbara McKinney invited Mayor Jon Nehring to visit her second-grade class May 13, she should have warned him to “bee” surprised. The class has been studying all year how important bees are to the survival of humans. “We’re gonna die off, as well as them. We need to wake up Mr. Mayor,” student Emma Flick said in her most-determined voice. The class then surprised Nehring with a proposed resolution asking the city to use bee-friendly plants whenever possible and to ban the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. Those chemicals, along with predators such as bears who go after the honey in hives, are why onethird of the world’s bee population is extinct. If another third of the bee population dies, humans will die, too, because the food chain will disappear. Emma Tocco said in the resolution that Seattle, Spokane, Eugene and Portland, OR, have banned