Everett Daily Herald, July 20, 2015

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This week’s watchwords Hula Hooping

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Hundreds of volunteers will try to break a world record Sunday before the AquaSox game at Memorial Stadium.

Microsoft, Starbucks and Amazon report this week. Boeing’s earnings come out before markets open Wednesday.

MONDAY, 07.20.2015

Snohomish Gardens Annual tour is this weekend. Sneak a peek in Home & Garden Thursday.

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Alternative to jail in the works State money comes through to help turn the Carnegie Building in Everett to transitional housing for low-level offenders with drug addictions and those with mental illness. By Diana Hefley Herald Writer

EVERETT — A proposal to renovate the former Carnegie Library into transitional housing for the homeless received a boost from the state.

“This is a wonderful starting point to create a place where we’re helping people put their lives back together,” said Mary Jane Brell Vujovic, the director of Snohomish County Human Services. The proposal calls for creating a place that provides temporary housing and social services for people released from jail for nonviolent crimes, or as an alternative to the county lockup. The plan is to build 20

Legislators allocated $1.34 million from the state’s capital budget for the project, which is being called the Rapid Recidivism Reduction Center. The county will still need to raise about $600,000 to complete the $2.1 million in renovations.

bedrooms with shared living spaces on one floor. The second floor will house mental health, substance abuse and job training services. Staff also will help participants sign up for health insurance, connect them with a primary care doctor and refer them to other community services. It is expected to cost about $1.2 million a year to run the program. That money will come from local sales tax already

Post 2554’s best friend

collected and specifically earmarked for substance abuse and mental health services, and from county fees for marriage licenses and other services. Most of the participants are expected to qualify for public health care, which would reimburse the county for drug and alcohol addiction programs and mental health services. Proponents say the center will See CARNEGIE, Page A2

Making Loop slide area ‘whole’

Cmdr. Chuck Donahue is being recognized for resurrecting VFW in Sultan

The county is tackling water quality after emergency repairs to stabilize the Waldheim Slide area were completed four years ago. By Kari Bray Herald Writer

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Cmdr. Chuck Donahue of the Sultan VFW is being recognized nationally for his work in resurrecting the Post 2554. In 2013, a member stole $90,000 from the VFW’s bank account. The incident led to the post almost closing but Donahue rallied the community for new members.

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SULTAN — Members feared the Veterans of Foreign Wars Stoehr-Glidden Post 2554 would be forced to close after a longtime former quartermaster admitted in 2012 to stealing $90,000 from the group’s bank accounts and cooking the books to cover his crimes. Commander Chuck Donahue

was determined not to let that happen. The U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War rallied members and raised money to keep the post open. Now, both Donahue and the work the post has done in the community are being nationally recognized. Donahue, 69, of Gold Bar, has achieved the status of AllAmerican Commander from the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the

Pot meets kettle And calls it black: Donald Trump says he will neither apologize for nor stop saying whatever he wants to say about anything, a day after his disparaging comments about Sen. John McCain’s military service Saturday caused an uproar (Page A5). The reality TV star went on television

United States. He is one of 130 post commanders worldwide to receive the honor this year. “It really hasn’t hit me yet,” he said. “But I’m very proud of all of my post members for what we’ve achieved. Post 2554 is also being recognized for its help with a project to line Sultan’s Main Street with American flags. It received the Fred C. Hall Memorial Outstanding Post Special Project

Sunday to say of McCain, “He’s on television all the time, talking, talking. Nothing gets done.” Looks like the surgical team that grafted that thing onto Trump’s scalp inadvertently snipped off his senses of shame and irony. Surfing the vast cultural wasteland: A program on the TLC cable network

called “Body Bizarre” looks at a man whose chin won’t stop growing (The Clicker, Page B4). Wow, Jay Leno will do just about anything to get on TV these days, won’t he? Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin took humankind’s

Award from the national VFW. “Post 2554 worked tirelessly to transform its hometown, and after everything was said and done, ended up doing much more for its community,” VFW National Commander John W. Stroud wrote in statement. “For more than 80 years, members of the post in Sultan have been making a difference in their

See SLIDE, Page A2

See POST, Page A2

first stroll on the moon (Today in History, Page B4). The moon walk undoubtedly was one of history’s greatest achievements, and Aldrin would further secure his hallowed place in history on Sept. 9, 2002, when he punched a moon landing denier in the face.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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By Amy Nile

SILVERTON — Four years after shoring up the Mountain Loop Highway at the Waldheim Slide, Snohomish County is finishing the $1.8 million repair project. The main road repairs were done in 2011, after a landslide in December 2010 and flooding in January 2011 threatened to wash a stretch of the scenic byway into the South Fork Stillaguamish River. Crews stabilized the bank below the pavement, put boulders and wood debris at the bottom of the slope and rebuilt the road where it was cracking and collapsing. Repairing the road wasn’t the end of the project, though. Federal regulations require the county to balance any impacts the emergency repairs had on the river by improving water quality and fish habitat nearby. It took years of working with engineers, environmentalists, local tribes and permit officials to finalize a mitigation plan. “It’s just nice to complete the project as a whole,” said Max Phan, the county’s design engineering manager. “The biggest hurdle for this last piece was getting all the agencies together and finding a mitigation plan that works for everyone.”

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