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School’s out
Strawberries
Be at Everett Station at 5:30 Thursday — not to catch a train, but to tell the Sound Transit Board your ideas for the ballot measure
The 115th will be played at Chambers Bay near Tacoma, from Thursday through Sunday. No ticket? Find total coverage right here
Soon... the end depends on the district, and some have had to push out the last day to account for teacher walkouts
The 84th annual Marysville Strawberry Festival continues all week, with the carnival opening Thursday and parades, shortcakeeating contest and fireworks set for Saturday. And don’t forget the bounty of berries from local farms
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Monitoring Glacier Peak’s pulse New stations that would warn of a possible eruption, track seismic activity and aid in research are awaiting U.S. Forest Service approval. By Kari Bray Herald Writer
GLACIER PEAK — The U.S. Geological Survey is seeking permission to install four new monitoring stations around Snohomish County’s only volcano.
Glacier Peak is classified as one of the most dangerous and least-monitored volcanoes in the country. A decade ago, researchers listed the mountain as high priority for more extensive studies and better monitoring equipment.
The USGS started mapping the volcano and its surrounding peaks and valleys — 482 square miles — last year using Light Detection and Ranging, or lidar. That gives researchers a detailed lay of the land. Now, they hope for U.S. Forest Service approval to set up equipment that can track seismic activity, including quaking or bulging of the mountain’s slopes. The stations would be able to record and transmit that
activity in real time, providing data to help scientists understand Glacier Peak and hopefully predict future eruptions, according to the USGS’ proposal. If the volcano were to erupt, it could send a massive wall of mud, rock and glacial melt down the Stillaguamish and Skagit river valleys, ripping through Darrington and parts of Arlington and Stanwood. Burlington, Sedro-Woolley and
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Lyman in Skagit County also are built on top of volcanic debris from long ago and could be in the path of future flows. “Only with adequate monitoring systems in place can volcano observatories provide accurate and timely forecasts and alerts of possible eruptive activity,” according to the USGS’ application. See PEAK, Page A2
Salmon project set to proceed By Noah Haglund Herald Writer
Former addict Robert Smiley now lives to help the homeless Herald Writer
MONROE — In the parking lot of Al Borlin Park on June 5, Robert Smiley unloaded supplies from his car and divided them into seven or eight backpacks: canned food, Ramen noodles, flashlights, cigarettes, toiletries such as toothpaste, razors and deodorant. He handed the
backpacks to the small group of volunteers. Then it was into the woods, Smiley raising a bullhorn to his mouth: “Good afternoon! Who wants a free backpack? And we’ve got free cigarettes, too!” Smiley’s plan on that Friday afternoon was to visit the homeless encampments in the heavily wooded park. Ideally, he wanted to connect
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anyone living in the park with social services, from housing to detox or other needs. If nothing else, it was to warn them that the police were coming through to remove all the encampments. A week earlier, Smiley had helped organize a free barbecue for the homeless at Take the Next Step, a referral service and drop-in center close to the park. He did the same thing there with
Herky-jerky Oh boy! Seattle’s Oberto has sent a case of beef jerky to an Idaho lawmaker after she said she was ready for a special session because she had a good supply of the salty dried beef (Page A8). We’re asking Oberto to do the same for our state legislators who are in their Dear Abby. . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8
the homeless people who came by: passed out his card, told people about the coming sweep, and said he was there to help. The police came that following Monday. The word apparently had gotten out at the barbecue, because Smiley later heard from the police that there were no See HELP, back page, this section
second special session, but then shutting off the water fountains in the Capitol to get lawmakers to agree to a state budget.
Scientists were disappointed however when all that the probe sent back were seven months’ worth of selfies.
Can you hear me now? A space probe that landed on a comet but then lost power because a cliff’s shadow blocked its solar panels, has recontacted Earth (Page A5).
Deep in the Wal-Mart of Texas: The History Channel miniseries “Texas Rising,” about Gen. Sam Houston’s defeat of Mexican Gen. Santa Anna, concludes
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tonight at 9 (The Clicker, Page B4). The series ends with Houston taking on a role vital to the future of Texas: The territorial governor asks Houston to monitor the U.S. military’s Jade Helm “training exercises” and to check the local Wal-Marts for FEMA camps.
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Robert Smiley (center) walks through Al Borlin Park in Monroe on June 5 while talking into a loudspeaker to announce that his group has backpacks full of toiletries and other essential supplies available to those in need. With two and a half years of sobriety behind him, Smiley has turned his attention to helping homeless people find housing and support.
EVERETT — A massive earthmoving project to transform low-lying farmland along the Snohomish River delta into salmon habitat could break ground in August, after more than a decade of preparation. Snohomish County’s Smith Island project would flood about 350 acres now protected by dikes. State and federal agencies consider it a vital piece of the strategy to revive Chinook salmon stocks in Puget Sound. They have supplied grants to cover most of the $26 million cost. The county’s Public Works Department is accepting bids this month from contractors to perform the bulk of heavy construction. “The bid now is the majority of the work building the new infrastructure, the new dike and drainage system,” said Steve Dickson, a public works special projects manager. The new dike will stretch for more than a mile. It will sit farther from the water than the existing dikes, built in the 1930s, and play an important role protecting I-5 and Everett’s sewage treatment plant from floodwaters. After the new dike is built, the county plans to issue another bid to breach the old dikes and
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