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Mitch Latta inspires the crowd as he talks about his son, Bentley. At right, Arlington Relay for Life participants take to the track. to treatment. By the time doctors caught Bentley’s cancer, it was already at Stage 4, with tumors at least an inch in diameter. “There were so many
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MARYSVILLE – Tulalip Tribal Chairman Mel Sheldon, among other things, talked about the sales taxes the tribes send to Olympia each year, without getting any back, June 26 at a business breakfast. Each year, through sales taxes at Quil Ceda Village, the tribe generates up to $50 million, he said. None comes back to offset costs of running the business park. That is why the tribes has filed a suit against the state and Snohomish County to get some of that money back.
tumors that they couldn’t count them all,” Latta said. “We ultimately opted to remove his entire eye, which was scary enough, but then, we had to play the waiting game, to see if the cancer
had spread to his brain.” To this day, Latta chokes up with tears of gratitude when he hears the words “cancer free,” although he also admitted to feeling a touch of survivor’s guilt.
“When we went to the hospital, we saw the other children there, and our hearts just broke,” Latta said. “We got lucky, so we asked SEE CANCER, PAGE 2
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ARLINGTON – Although it’s tempting to sum up this year’s Arlington Relay For Life as a series of numbers – 323 individuals on 44 teams who have raised $98,432.92 and counting – for father Mitch Latta, the relay means a longer life for his 2-year-old son, Bentley. Latta helped kick off the relay’s abridged 12-hour running time June 20 by recounting how he first received the diagnosis of his son’s retinal blastoma from a phone call with his wife last September. He recalled how helpless he felt, even as he ran through all his options and considered what steps he would need to take next, from MRI scans
Mel Sheldon He also talked about how the tribes have given more than $63 million to charities, police, courts, homeless shelters, food programs, theater groups, other tribes and more through its Community Charitable Donations program. “We are honored to share SEE TRIBE, PAGE 2
MARYSVILLE – Imagine a waterfront and downtown with condominium and apartment buildings up to eight stories high. On the first floor would be small shops and boutiques; a brewery; some other pubs; restaurants, one maybe even being high end. Never happen here? Think again. Some were saying that in Everett just a decade ago, and now it has many. About two dozen people listened to consultant Alan Steinbeck talk about development at a public meeting at City Hall June 25. City officials were to meet June 26 all day to discuss the future of downtown and ways to develop it.
Steinbeck said this type of development is good for the environment because people can live near where they play, reducing air pollution by cutting back on driving. “It improves quality of life,” he said. City Administrative Officer Gloria Hirashima said the city has received $400,000 in grants from the Environmental Protection Agency and $200,000 from the Department of Ecology as a distressed community to clean up the waterfront and downtown. Public Works has received $2 million for other projects. “We’ve got some cool projects in the works. It just takes a lot of time,” Hirashima said. A lot already has been
done. Police and code enforcement have reduced crime in the area 80 percent, she said. The Spray Park has brought families to Comeford Park. A new store and bank have cleaned up 4th and State. Third Street has been rebuilt with a historic look. And the city has leased the Opera House to try to bring in more arts. “It’s a well-rounded approach” for different interests downtown, Hirashima said. But “when’s it gonna happen? We see everything, and we want to fix it. We sound like whiners because we want it to happen faster.” Steinbeck said it likely won’t happen faster. It takes time. But getting a project SEE PLAN, PAGE 2
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