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Farmers face new rules The state is updating permits for manure lagoons as it addresses concerns about groundwater pollution. By Amy Nile and Kari Bray Herald Writers

OLYMPIA — State officials are rewriting water quality rules and the update could change how Snohomish County farmers use

manure lagoons. The Department of Ecology is updating permits it issues for Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations. Those are farms that discharge waste from animals confined for at least 45 days

during the year in an area where they cannot graze. They can be dairy, beef, hog or poultry farms. The rewrite will clarify when a permit is required and also address groundwater-pollution concerns that were not part of permits in the past. No details have been finalized, said Jon Jennings, who is rewriting the permits for the ecology department.

Right now, no Snohomish County farms have the permits. Most of the 20 manure lagoons here are concentrated along the Stillaguamish, Snohomish, Skykomish and Snoqualmie rivers. The Stillaguamish watershed has 10 lagoons within 3,000 feet of a See RULES, back page, this section

The proposed “Center to Sound” would link up Lynnwood’s existing paths, providing a way for people to travel without using cars.

In 1915, as war raged in Europe, the Liberty Bell came to Everett

When freedom rolled in

By Rikki King Herald Writer

PHOTO OF POSTCARD COURTESY OF JACK O’DONNELL

An Everett crowd, pictured on this postcard, gets a look at the Liberty Bell on July 14, 1915, during its train tour to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.

By Julie Muhlstein

About the bell

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EVERETT — The Liberty Bell no longer rang and it wasn’t on time, but 100 years ago this month the bronze symbol of American freedom rolled into Everett on a train. It was 4 a.m. July 14, 1915, when the bell, mounted on an open-top train car, arrived here on its way to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. The Panama Canal had opened in 1914. It wasn’t the bell’s first train trip — there had been six others, but none to the West. The 1915 journey that included Everett and Seattle would be its last absence from Philadelphia, where historians believe the bell was rung July 8, 1776, to mark the reading of the Declaration of Independence.

■ It is bronze (copper and tin) and weighs 2,080 pounds. ■ Its strike note is E-flat. ■ It was first cast in 1752, and recast in 1753 by John Pass and John Stow. ■ It did not ring July 4, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted for independence. ■ It is believed to have rung July 8, 1776, to mark the reading of the Declaration of Independence. ■ It was originally in the tower of the Pennsylvania State House, According to Everett Daily Herald archives, a 21-gun salute by local Spanish-American War veterans greeted the Liberty Bell train. It had been scheduled to

Spare a square? Running low on Tang, too: After two other missions to resupply the International Space Station failed, Russia launched a supply craft carrying oxygen, food, water and other supplies (Page A5). We won’t say the astronauts were getting desperate, but they were down to the last remaining pages of a

Scott Turow paperback that one of them brought up. It’s Greek to me: Greeks, who are being asked to vote in a referendum on their future role in the European Union and whether to keep the euro as their currency, are scratching their heads over the ballot language: “Should the plan of agreement, which was submitted by the European Commis-

now called Independence Hall. ■ It is on display in Liberty Bell Center at Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia. ■ There is no known record of when or why it first cracked. ■ It was first called the Liberty Bell in 1835 in “The Anti-Slavery Record,” an abolitionist publication. ■ Its inscription is an Old Testament verse from Leviticus 25:10: “Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof.” — Source: National Park Service

arrive in Everett just before midnight July 13, 1915, but a delay tested the crowd’s patience. By sunup, people were pressing toward a platform to get a

sion, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund in the Eurogroup of 25.06.2015 and is comprised of two parts that constitute their unified proposal be accepted?” (Page A6). Considering how long Greeks have had to perfect this democracy stuff you’d think they would have figured out how to write a ballot measure by now.

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close look or even touch the bell. The train was stopped at a rail siding near a freight depot at the east end of Everett’s Wall Street, which was festooned with banners. Before heading south to Seattle and Tacoma, it could also be seen at the Great Northern depot along Everett’s Bayside waterfront. Local historian Jack O’Donnell, who for many years wrote The Herald’s “Seems Like Yesterday” column, is a postcard collector. He has two postcards showing pictures of the Liberty Bell in Everett. O’Donnell found them on eBay, and said they cost $10 to $20. One shows the bell with an American flag made of flowers, a gift from the Everett Rose & Dahlia Society. And a floral wreath was presented by the

LYNNWOOD — A map of Lynnwood shows a city sliced by highways into sections. Lynn Sordel and Jared Bond kept looking at that map. How could they better connect those sections? Light rail is coming to Lynnwood, and they have maybe a decade to get the city ready. Transit officials estimate that at least 20,000 daily travelers will converge on the city to make use of the rail stop. They will need to be able to bike and walk and otherwise move around town. Cars won’t do. What about a trail? The idea is germinating. The proposed trail, tentatively called “Center to Sound,” would connect City Center, at I-5 and 196th Street SW, with the Meadowdale Beach Park trail leading to Puget Sound. For the most part, the new trail would follow Scriber Creek and link up existing ribbons of asphalt. They’re looking at a total distance of about four miles. Sordel, the parks director, imagines the trail as a spine through Lynnwood, “a place to go or get somewhere,” he said. He managed the creation of a similar trail at his previous job in Florida. “Consistently we’re hearing from our community that it’s important to be able to get around,” he said. “If we can create something like that, we have done something huge.” Jared Bond, as the city’s environmental and surface water supervisor, helps manage flooding and drainage. He’d like the trail to allow more public access to the city’s streams and wetlands. Mayor Nicola Smith and her husband, Del, took a tour of existing sections of the trail in May. Congressman Rick Larsen got his own brief tour during a stop in the city Tuesday. In last month’s State of the City address, Smith called the completed trail “a future dream.” “It’s such a great idea, I want to give it feet,” she said in a recent interview. The mayor assigned a photography team — her husband and two family friends — to See TRAIL, back page, this section

See FREEDOM, Page A2

Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1845, Henry David Thoreau began his two-year experiment in simpler living at Walden Pond (Today in History, Page C8). Thoreau wrote that he enjoyed the quiet and solitude, but his cell reception was lousy and he never could figure out his neighbor’s WiFi password.

—Jon Bauer, Herald staff

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