This week’s watchwords Graduation
Sorticulture
Seniors at Marysville Pilchuck High School graduate Wednesday and a bunch of other schools follow on Sunday. Look for their stories in The Herald.
It’s sorta about gardening, sorta about family fun. And you gotta check it out. It’s this weekend; a map and schedule run Thursday in Home & Garden.
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‘Jurassic World’ Opening Friday, our own Chris Pratt stars in this mega-budget, mega-thrills sequel, set 22 years after the original theme park’s killer dinos ran amok. No worries, this time they’ve got it all figured out… details in A&E. WWW.HERALDNET.COM
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Construction theft rampant A Marysville man recently was arrested after being caught with thousands of dollars worth of missing goods. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
MARYSVILLE — Each year hundreds of millions of dollars worth of equipment and materials are stolen from construction sites around the country.
Heavy equipment and copper often top the thieves’ wish lists, but the haul can take many forms. The recent arrest of a Marysville man is evidence of that. He was caught with more than $10,000 in missing goods, including bath tubs, sinks, lights and
fixtures, grout, caulk, lumber, shutters, columns, doors, trusses, nails, sub flooring, wall sheeting and a garbage disposal. Marysville police and the North Snohomish County Property Crime Unit believe the suspect would rent a truck and load it with stolen goods taken from construction sites in King and Snohomish counties. They recovered goods being stored at
two Marysville-area homes. In both cases, the people living at the homes said the suspect asked to store the materials in exchange for making repairs. Police traced the goods back to four contractors whose job sites had been looted. Another contractor was reunited with 15 five-gallon paint See THEFT, Page A2
A prom that celebrates
Everett extends valve offer Affected residents now have until Sept. 1 to install a system to protect their property from sewer backups caused by storms. By Chris Winters Herald Writer
Club rolls out the red carpet for friends By Diana Hefley Herald Writer
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EVERETT — Inside the First Baptist Church on Wetmore Avenue there was a line for the hair stylists and the makeup station was buzzing with talk about the night ahead. A few guys who’d arrived early gravitated toward each other. They loosened ties and tugged at jacket sleeves. Dates handed out corsages and proud parents took photographs. A young woman twirled, sending her dress swirling around her. There were hugs and smiles. A cheer
went up as the first classic car pulled up to the curb outside the church. Fancy dresses and spiffy suits called for riding in style to the dance. “We live in a world of short busses and life-skills classes. This, this makes you feel normal,” Nicole Morrison said Saturday. Morrison watched her daughter Jalen, 16, climb into the back of deep-red convertible with a group of friends. The EdmondsWoodway High School junior met the other girls through Snohomish County Young Life
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Dear Abbey Keep calm and carry on: Now more than half-way through filming of the sixth and final season of the popular BBC series “Downton Abbey,” the cast is keeping their upper lips stiff. The series, broadcast in America on PBS, has followed the Crawley family and their Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8
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Megan Harrell gets some help putting on pink lip gloss at First Baptist Church before heading to prom at Xfinity Arena in Everett on Saturday.
help (Page B4). The cast may not be upset, but this is a major crisis for PBS. The network hasn’t had a British import this good at bringing in pledges since the cast of “Monty Python” was wearing dresses and singing about Spam. Skip the shoulder rub: President Obama was in
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Germany to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel. The pair’s friendship was challenged in recent years when a leak revealed the NSA had tapped Merkel’s phone (Page A5). To show there are no hard feelings, Merkel presented Obama with a special beer stein and told him to speak clearly into the foam. Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1
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Covering the bases: The Seattle Mariners’ offensive struggles continued with a 3-1 loss to Tampa Bay. The M’s scored four runs in the last four games. (Page C1). Just to make sure everyone’s clear, Manager Lloyd McClendon is having new directional signage installed at each base at Safeco Field.
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Chris Baker (right) gets a hug from Bailey Waters (left) at First Baptist Church before heading to Xfinity Arena for a prom hosted Saturday by Young Life Snohomish County Capernaum, a faith-based club for young people with special needs.
EVERETT — The city of Everett is extending its now passed deadline for some residents to install backwater valves to protect their property from sewer backups in the event of a major storm. The new deadline is Sept. 1. The city enacted a program last fall that required up to 1,800 particularly flood-prone property owners in north Everett to install the one-way valves on their sewer outflow pipes, and offered $2,500 rebates to owners to do so. Only about 840 have done so, and a flurry of last-minute applications for the rebate program prompted the extension, city officials said. The program was designed to prevent the massive flooding that occurred during a series of storms in 2013 and to protect the city from paying out claims. The storms caused the city’s 100-year-old combined sewer and stormwater system to back up into dozens of basements. So far the city has paid out $3.2 million in damage claims from the 2013 storms, with a few large claims from commercial properties still outstanding. The policy enacted last year also puts a cap on the claims, and limits those circumstances in which the city will pay out. And that’s where some residents are becoming alarmed. As the June 1 deadline to install a valve approached, Everett’s public works department sent out reminder notices to emphasize that the city would no longer pay claims for backups on properties where the residents had installed the valves. That caught Shelley Weyer, the chairman of the Northwest Neighborhood Association, by surprise. She said previous communications from the city seemed to
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