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MARYSVILLE PILCHUCK
This is a statewide tragedy, not just one place. — state Rep. Hans Dunshee
New MP cafeteria funding on track By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
MARYSVILLE — It took a few weeks before state Rep. Hans Dunshee called the Marysville School District headquarters. He understood he would have been low on the priority list in the aftermath of the Oct. 24 Marysville Pilchuck High School shootings that took the lives of five freshmen, including the boy with the gun. They didn’t need a politician bothering them. So he bided his time. When he reached the superintendent’s office in November, he was referred to the district’s finance director. Dunshee’s question was simple: Did the district want a new cafeteria to replace the one closed after the shootings? The short answer, after an online survey of students, parents and the community, was yes. Students didn’t want to ever go back into the old building. “We were very anxious to come
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Paul Lehtinen measures and cuts naugahyde as part of the painstaking effort to restore the De Havilland DH106 Comet 4C at the Museum of Flight Restoration Center at Paine Field. The world’s first jetliner will eventually make its home at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
Comet was a world-changer Restoration of classic jetliner is 70 percent complete — but it will never fly again By Dan Catchpole Herald Writer
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This 1958 poster advertises NYCLondon flights.
VERETT — The old jetliner’s interior hardly resembles what it looked like 20 years ago. Slime and mold covered nearly every surface of the de Havilland Comet 4C when the Museum of Flight got it in 1995. It had already spent more than a decade parked outside at Paine Field. The historic airplane’s aluminum body was riddled with holes from corrosion. The Comet is a classic: It launched the jet age in 1952, and many thought Britain might dominate the jetliner market. But just as the airplane introduced many innovations, it taught painful lessons about the pressures and stresses put on passenger jet airplanes. For the past two decades, hundreds of volunteers have put in more than 200,000 hours restoring the historical jetliner at the museum’s Restoration Center at Paine Field, said Tom Cathcart, the museum’s director of aircraft restoration. “Just about everything in here has been
Heijo Kuil switches out a drill bit to make authentic wood wheel chocks on the Comet 4C.
removed and reinstalled,” he said. The volunteers have cleaned, repaired or replaced everything from the gauges and rows of toggles in the cockpit to the shining stainless steel fore galley and the light-beige seat upholstery on the 71 seats. See COMET, Page A6
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A group of local dads reviews a new TV comedy. Good Life, D1
Finding hospitality and variety on a cross-state bike tour. Outdoors, E1
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