This week’s watchwords Stuff the Bus
Preseason opener
Craft beer
Donation stations (yellow school buses) signal the school supply drive Friday and Saturday, which aims to fill 1,700 backpacks for needy students this year . For locations and a list of needed supplies, go to http://www.everettsd.org/epsf.
Expectations are high for the Seahawks’ opener Friday at 7 p .m . against the Denver Broncos in Seattle . The outcome of the game may not mean much, but it’s a great chance for fans to get a look at the younger Hawks as they stretch their wings .
The fourth annual Everett Craft Beer Festival is Saturday, downtown . More than 30 state breweries will be pouring their finest . Best of all, $20 admission gets you a souvenir glass for your collection and six tasting tokens . Details in A&E on Friday.
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Mother allegedly kept stolen gun Screens don’t prevent falls Police say photos show a Marysville woman with a military-style rifle her son is accused of stealing in a July burglary. By Eric Stevick Herald Writer
MARYSVILLE — A Marysville mom is in hot water after allegedly keeping for herself a military-style rifle her teenage
son is accused of stealing in a July burglary. The allegations are outlined in a North Snohomish County Property Crime Unit police report. The report was obtained under state open records laws.
The investigation turned up cellphone photos of two teens posing with a stolen AR-15 and a stolen handgun. In another picture, the mother stands in the background as her son points the handgun toward the cellphone camera. There is a separate photo in which she is seen wearing a yellow dress and smiling while holding the rifle. Both teens were charged in
Snohomish County Juvenile Court with possessing stolen property. The mother, 31, was booked into the Snohomish County Jail for investigation of possessing a stolen firearm. She later was released, pending charges. The Herald generally doesn’t identify juveniles charged with See RIFLE, Page A2
Remembering Tuck
They give parents a false sense of security, but more kids have fallen out of windows this year than in previous years. By Rikki King Herald Writer
Well-known Snohomish High civics teacher Tuck Gionet ‘led by example’ Herald Writer
SNOHOMISH — When Sonya Herrera picked up her class schedule last fall, she gulped when she saw who she had for government and law. “Oh no,” the senior thought.
“I’ve got Mr. Gionet. I don’t know if I’m ready for this.’” Herrera isn’t the first student to fret when ending up in a Tuck
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Gionet civics class at Snohomish High School. He was known as a tough teacher with no tolerance for cellphones, late papers or being tardy. Gionet was well aware of his reputation. He’d like to say: “I know there is prayer in school because there are prayers they
Just run with it We’ve heard that line before: Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch makes a guest appearance on the season premiere of FXX’s “The League” (Page B4). But each time his line cue came up, all he could remember to say was, “I’m just here so I won’t get fined.” Dear Abby . . . . B3 Horoscope . . . B8
won’t get me.” Ask Herrera a year later about Gionet and she laughs. Gionet was just as advertised: a demanding teacher who challenged his students to think critically. He eked out every
We can recommend the salmon at Ivar’s: Local civic leaders in Miami, home of the Miami Seaquarium, have joined the campaign to free Lolita and return her to the Washington state waters from which she was captured in 1970 (Page B5). Lolita, if you are able to come home, just a warning that things have changed in
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the past 45 years. The salmon are a little smaller, the water a little warmer, but we won’t make you jump through hoops for every meal. Trumped up: Donald Trump defended his latest remarks that Fox News’ Megan Kelly, in challenging him about his insults of women, had “blood coming Sports . . . . . . . C1 Your Photos . . B1
out of her wherever.” Only a “deviant,” said Trump, would interpret the remark as being anything but a harmless barb (Page A5). And if you think Trump, R-He Man Woman Hater’s Club, was implying it was just that time of the month for Kelly, you’re wrong. Period. —Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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Jake Dahlem, Class of 2003, reacts to offerings left at a memorial for beloved teacher and coach Tuck Gionet on the grounds of Snohomish High School on Sunday. Gionet also was a trivia partner of Dahlem and said it was odd to have a drink with your former track and cross country coach.
EVERETT — Snohomish County didn’t make it 24 hours into August before a child fell from a window. This year’s hotter-than-average temperatures are likely to blame for a rash of recent falls, officials said. Despite prevention efforts, infant and toddler window falls have increased in recent years, said Shawneri Guzman, a trauma specialist at Safe Kids Snohomish County and Providence Regional Medical Center Everett. Last year, Providence’s emergency room staff treated 21 children younger than 14 after falls. That figure doesn’t include cases where children went to other hospitals or had less serious injuries. Almost all of the victims were 2 or 3 years old, Guzman said. In most cases, the children leaned on window screens on the second stories of apartments and houses. Screens give parents a false sense of security, Guzman said. Screens can’t withstand much pressure, even the push of a child’s head. Toddlers tend to fall headfirst because of their body shape. Safe Kids Snohomish County distributed nearly 400 window locks last week during National Night Out. They worked with fire departments in Lake Stevens, Mukilteo and Everett, ZIP codes that see a high number of falls. Of the parents who accepted the devices, “about half said they had thought of getting a lock and just hadn’t done it yet, while the other half had never even considered the danger,” Guzman said. As of Aug. 4, Harborview Medical Center in Seattle had treated more than 40 children who fell from windows so far this year, a hospital spokeswoman said. “That’s the number we would
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