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Heroin users crowd jail A report presented to the County Council talks about the issues surrounding how to safely house detoxing inmates. By Scott North and Diana Hefley Herald Writers
EVERETT — Heroin use is so rampant among people being booked into the Snohomish
County Jail that Monday, more than 90 percent of the 52 inmates locked up in the medical unit were dangerously ill with withdrawal symptoms. The jail’s medical unit was designed to hold 24 inmates,
and until recent years, it typically operated at about two-thirds capacity. So far this year, it is averaging more than 44 inmates daily. Much of that increase has come since 2013. The biggest health issue is detainees addicted to heroin or other opiates, according to a new report prepared by the
corrections bureau of the Snohomish County Sheriff ’s Office, which operates the lockup in Everett. “Heroin has caused the jail to become Snohomish County’s largest ‘de facto’ detox center over the last two years,” corrections Maj. Jamie Kane wrote. See HEROIN, Page A2
MARYSVILLE PILCHUCK
There was so much more Members of the Class of 2015 refused to let tragedy define them
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The graduates are seated in a number 15 pattern for the Class of 2015 of the Marysville Pilchuck High School during the graduation ceremony Wednesday afternoon at Xfinity Arena in Everett.
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EVERETT — Corbin Ferry had one goal the first day of his freshman year at Marysville Pilchuck High School. He wanted to look cool. So he put on a pair of jeans and a Converse T-shirt, stuck an earbud in one ear and let the other dangle. That was four years ago. It’s hard to say if he succeeded at looking cool. He did, however, manage to get lost. When he asked an equally clueless freshmen how to get to Mr. Roberts’ class, his friend sent him to
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the far end of the sprawling campus. It was only when Ferry got back to his original starting point that he realized he had been standing right outside the classroom where he was supposed to be when he asked for directions. Ferry laughs at the memory now. In some ways, it was a metaphor for his high school experience. He found himself along the way. See MPHS, back page, this section
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Young Life policy faulted A volunteer with the ministry quits after she learns the group accepts gay middle- and high-schoolers but doesn’t allow gay leaders. By Amy Nile Herald Writer
SNOHOMISH — A woman here is standing up for what she believes is right. Pam Elliott, a volunteer leader for Young Life Snohomish, is leaving the evangelical Christian ministry after being asked to remove a photo from her Facebook page. It showed rainbow-colored flowers that she and friends had made out of tissue paper to show support for gay rights. Terry Swenson, a spokesman for Young Life, says that Elliott, who is married to a man, did not violate the group’s written policies. But leaders are discouraged from publicly expressing opinions about political and social issues. Because people see Elliott as a representative of Young Life, her posting of the pride flowers was “unwise” and made for a “complicated” situation, Swenson said in an interview. Elliott decided to leave the organization after more closely examining Young Life’s policies regarding homosexuality. Young Life accepts middle and high school students regardless of sexual orientation, but the standards are different for leaders. Only those who are heterosexual are allowed to serve the international faith-based nonprofit as leaders. That applies to young people and adults alike. Elliott said she wasn’t aware of the policy when she agreed to mentor ninth-grade girls at Snohomish High School a year ago. Had she read the paperwork more carefully, she said, she wouldn’t have signed it. “I love Young Life,” Elliott said. “But I want this policy to be daylighted.” Elliott is also part of another local group that her friend, Joan Robinett Wilson, started, called the Society of Lucky Mothers, which supports people of all sexual orientations. Wilson’s son, Drake, 17, posted a YouTube video last summer announcing he is gay. See POLICY, Page A2
Drew Hatch made his own cap.
The SS No-Host Bar With 15 percent gratuity added: Aiming to keep smuggled alcohol off ships, Carnival Cruise Line has banned passengers from bringing bottled water and soda pop (Page A7). New motto for Carnival: “If your friends could see you now, they’d say, ‘You’re Dear Abby. . . .D5 Horoscope . . . B4
gonna need a second job to pay off that bar tab.’” Keeping up with youth: In a bid to stay relevant to their young-skewing customers, Taco Bell executives are boning up on what they’re told is millennial lingo, such as “on fleek,” which is said to mean “on point” and which a Taco Bell executive mispro-
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nounced as “on cleek” during a meeting with industry analysts (Page A7). Turns out “on cleek” is a medical term for what happens to one’s gastrointestinal tract after eating a Taco Bell Crunchwrap Supreme. Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1938, Johnny Vander Meer of the Short Takes . . .D6 Sports . . . . . . . C1
Cincinnati Reds threw the first of what would be backto-back no-hitters (Today in History, Page D6). Vander Meer’s feat has never been duplicated and seems safe — unless some pitcher talks his manager into letting him throw backto-back games against the Seattle Mariners.
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