Everett Daily Herald, May 25, 2015

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Only 6 more faces needed A virtual memorial is missing pictures of a half-dozen veterans from Snohomish County who were killed in Vietnam. By Noah Haglund Herald Writer

EVERETT — Sally Hopkins saw her late brother’s name last year in a story about the Wall of Faces,

a virtual memorial for veterans killed in the Vietnam War. Edward Hopkins was one of 26 fallen Snohomish County men whose photo was missing from the website, which aims to put a

face to every name on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall in Washington, D.C. A picture supplied by his sister now appears online. She remembered Ed Hopkins as a multi-sport athlete who loved music and dreamed of studying geology. “It helps us because our loved ones aren’t forgotten and the

sacrifice they made is not forgotten,” Sally Hopkins said. “I don’t want those stories to be lost.” All told, there are 75 men from Snohomish County listed as Vietnam War casualties. The picture of local vets killed in the conflict isn’t yet complete. See FACES, Page A4

For love of country, music Navy band a good gig for those who might not find work in civilian world

WSU work faces delay Construction in Everett can’t start without knowing how much funding will be received, a battle politicians are still fighting in Olympia. By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

orchestras,” she said. The competition for a tiny number of available seats, however, can be intense. Given her background, military life seemed a good option, she said, “between not having a job and wanting to play.” Her first choice would have been to follow her father into the Army, but the Army wasn’t hiring oboists at the time, she said.

OLYMPIA — Washington State University’s plan to construct a new building in Everett faces delay because of the continuing political impasse in Olympia. Designs are drawn and a contractor hired but WSU’s ability to break ground July 1 as hoped hinges on knowing how much state money, if any, will be provided. University officials are waiting for the answers from state lawmakers who are embroiled in a protracted battle on new budgets for government operations and constructions projects like the one proposed by WSU. Lawmakers won’t break their impasse in a special session that will end Thursday. That means WSU likely won’t know until sometime in June, during a second special session, when work will get under way on the future home of WSU North Puget Sound at Everett. “It’s really put the project in a lot of limbo since our team doesn’t know what our funding level is,” said project manager Stacy Shewell of OAC Services Inc. of Seattle, a construction management firm. “We want to provide a quality project that is on schedule and it’s hard when you don’t know what’s going on.” Paul Pitre, dean of WSU North Puget Sound, said the timeline hasn’t changed yet. But it could get pushed back a few weeks if lawmakers don’t act until late June, he said. Two weeks might not sound like much, Shewell said, but if that coincides with a bout of bad weather then “all bets are off ” on a start date. When the university gets the green light, fences will go up and workers will start tearing up the asphalt in a corner of

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See WSU, Page A4

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BANGOR — At the Naval Undersea Museum at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, a five-piece band rehearsed “Anchors Aweigh” with Rebecca Fitchett, 14, a student at North Kitsap High School, accompanying them on the flute. The occasion was the retirement ceremony of Fitchett’s father, Petty Officer 1st Class Christopher Fitchett, a

submarine machinist’s mate. He had asked if his daughter could sit in with the band for the ceremony. The quintet, officially known as Chinook Winds, features oboe, flute, clarinet, bassoon and French horn. It is one unit of Navy Band Northwest, a company of 34 musicians and one officer based at Bangor. Navy Band Northwest is a common site all over the Puget Sound region, playing at Naval Station

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Everett on community days, as part of Seafair during Fleet Week, and at any number of local community events. The members of the band are top-notch musicians from all over the country. Petty Officer 3rd Class Rachel Mortenson, the quintet’s oboist and leader, grew up in a military family but studied music at the Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University. “I really wanted to play in

The graduate MFA in bad taste: A top-shelf art school in Rhode Island will award an honorary degree to cult filmmaker John Waters, along with several members of the rock band Talking Heads (Page A2). Waters, who is also scheduled to deliver Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8

the keynote address at the school’s graduation ceremonies, says he was thrown out of every school he ever attended — a streak that could continue if university officials ever get around to screening his infamous 1972 movie “Pink Flamingos.”

wasteland: Food Network stars reveal their secret indulgences — such as oyster-stuffed steak and 24-layer chocolate cake — on a new show called “Guilty Pleasures” premiering today (The Clicker, Page B4). They’ll need to set aside an entire season for Guy Fieri.

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history: On this day in 1992, Jay Leno took over as host of “The Tonight Show” on NBC (Today in History, Page B4). The debut left a sour taste in the mouths of David Letterman fans — kind of like the morning after a dinner of oyster-stuffed steak and 24-layer chocolate cake.

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Petty Officer 2nd Class James Choate, a member of Navy Band Northwest, performs out of Bangor Trident Base on May 15 during Viking Fest in Poulsbo.

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